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LANGUAGE COMBINATIONS

Into French from:    English, German, Spanish, Portuguese
Into English from:    French, German, Spanish

WORK HISTORY

1998–present    Free-lance in Washington DC.

1993-1998       Member AIIC Council, Belgium, Vice-President, AIIC.

1992-1998       Head of Chinese Interpreters Training Unit, JICS

1992-1998       Senior Staff Interpreter at JICS, EC Commission, BRUSSELS (F-E-D-Es-P)
Worked at all Heads of State Summits. (European Council)
Interpreted weekly Commissioners Meetings. (Brussels and  Strasbourg)

1995    In charge of all Ministerial Meetings and the Cannes Summit of the French     Presidency, Amsterdam  Treaty Conference, Head of team of interpreters for all     conferences dealing with the creation of the Euro: Finance Ministers meetings,     Monetary Committee, European Investment Bank

1988-1997    Member Permanent Staff Committee, AIIC

1986-2002    Lecturer, Interpretation School, Georgetown University, (USA)

1982-1992    Staff Interpreter-translator at World Bank, WASHINGTON, D.C. (F-E-D-Es)
All Board meetings, Visits of the President in Africa, MENA Region
ED’s visits to Africa, North Africa
Financial and Economic seminars, annual meetings, Finance G7     meetings, consultative                               groups (Paris, Tokyo)
Translation of projects, letters etc.
Training of Chinese interpreters for China’s MOFTEC
Meetings of CGIAR, IDA, GEF, Caribbean Initiative, African Advisors

1975-1982    Staff Interpreter at EC Commission Brussels (F-E-D)

INTERPRETING EXPERIENCE

The IMF
Financial seminars, visits to the Federal Reserve, Annual Meetings (twice a year)
G10 Finance Ministers, Finance and Monetary Committee. G24
Annual Meetings, Washington, Singapore, October 2006, Istanbul October 2009

The World Bank
Regular interpretation at the Board of the Bank; economics seminars; Global Environment Forum; Consultative groups; Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Coalition for Africa; Visits to Africa by Bank officials; ICSID (Settlement of International Disputes); Seminars on economic and sectoral work, IFC Investment conference Development Committee meetings. GEF Assembly, Beijing  (Oct 02.) Justice Ministers, Abuja (Nigeria), May 03. Annual Meetings, Dubai (Sep. 03) Visits of African Presidents (Mr’s. Wade, Bouteflika, Toure, & Campaore, as well as Finance and Planning ministers. Interpretation for Presidents Mc Namara, Clausen, Conable, Wolfensohn  Wolfowitz and Zoellick

GEF conference Manila, Philippines, March 2010  GEF Assembly, Uruguay May 2010.

The United Nations
General Assembly, Economic and Social Committee; Security Council, Assembly of the Millennium, Committee on UN dues, UN Conference on Women

IDB
Board meetings; Committee of Governors; Annual meetings
Annual Meetings New Orleans 2001, Fortaleza 2005, Guatemala City 2007, Miami 2008. Medellin, 09.

Friends of Haiti Conference April ’09. Ministerial conference on Energy, April 2010.   General Assembly Cancun , May 2010.

Department of State
State of the Union speeches; AGOA; interpretation for VOA, USIA, DOD (Pentagon briefings, conferences on missile safety, NATO harmonization NMD), Conferences with the Secretary of State; visits to the Congress, FAA seminars; NATO 25th Anniversary Conference. QACISIG. NATO Parliamentary Union, CITES, NDU course for senior African leaders, Military conferences, Conference on stolen Jewish Art, FTA negotiations with Morocco, G 8 2004 at Sea Island, AGOA. France-US staff talks (Quantico 2004)
Codex Alimentarius, AVIAN FLU CONFERENCE (10/05)
Telephone Interpretation for the Secretary
ACSS conferences., ’03-‘2010
USMC-French Army Staff talks (California 2007)
DEA training course (Quantico 2007)
NOAA meeting , October 2007
NATO superior Officers talk at NDU (November 2007)
FAA annual conference December 2007, 2008, 2009
ACSS Jan. 2008. ACSS Rwanda, Burkina Faso 2009

G 20 Washington Nov. 08, Pittsburgh Sep. 09

Summit on Nuclear Energy, Washington DC April 2010.

OAS
Interpretation for the OAS Council, Board meetings, conferences on continental security, budget, CICAD
Summit of the Americas process with preparatory and plenary conferences: including the 2001 Quebec Summit. Monterrey Summit in 2004, REMJA  #4, Visits by Heads of State, Managua Declaration, June ‘04, Annual Meetings Quito 2004, Fort Lauderdale 2005

Ministerial meetings on Haiti, march 2010. Mnisterial summit on Energy in the Americas, April 2010.

European Union
Visits by Commissioners, Economic and Social Committee, Visits by MEP’s  (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
Financial conferences of the Transatlantic Dialogue, Visit of M. Barrot, EU Commission vice president, 2005 & 2007 (Open Skies Agreement). Commissioner Barnier’s visit to NYC and DC, April 2010.  EP visit to the UN, NYC May 2010.

French Embassy
Visits to the US by president Chirac. Working visits by French government ministers on Economic, judicial and financial affairs, visits by French members of Congress, Ministerial visits (M.Perben, M.Breton, M.Sarkozy, M.Darcos, Barnier ) , Staff Talks.

CSIS French-USA dialog, April 09.

Government of Canada
Interpretation at the Toronto Summit of the Americas, at the Ottawa Finance Ministers’ Conference, Heads of State Summit of the Americas, Quebec (April ‘01) Toronto,  Transportation Ministers conference, G8 Heads of States Economic Summit in Kananaskis   June 2002. (June ‘02)-G8 Speakers of the House in New York, Buiatrics Congress, July ‘04
Prison Chaplains (Ottawa 2005)
CIDA conferences 2006, 2007

G8/G20 Toronto 2010. G2o Speakers of Upper Houses, Ottawa 2010. G8 Speakers of Lower Houses, Ottawa 2010.

Private Sector
Carnegie Endowment for Peace (‘00 Conference on immigration), Brookings Institution, International Strategy Institute, World Energy Council (Houston ‘98, Buenos Aires ‘01) International Olympic Committee (Rio de Janeiro ‘01), Ford Annual Presentation (Orlando ‘01), IBM International Conference (Fort Myers ‘00), Nike (Las Vegas ‘02)
G8 Environment (Tokyo 00 and 02), World Gas Council (Seoul ’01), World Medical Association (Washington Oct. ‘02), Antarctic Treaty Organization (Warsaw Sep. ‘02)
Oil Consumer Countries (Seoul Sep. ‘02), International Conference on Justice (Abuja, Nigeria. Feb. ‘03), Freedom House conference on Algeria, March ‘03, World Gas Conference (Tokyo, June ‘03), Antarctic Treaty (Madrid June ‘03), International Olympic Committee (Prague, July ‘03), University Olympics, (Daegu Korea, Aug. ‘03), Human Rights Watch Sep.’03, Exxon Mobil Chad-Cameroon Pipeline (Kome, Chad, Oct.’03),  ATCM  Cape Town, 2004, ATCM Stockholm, 2005
University of the United Nations Council, Helsinki, Finland  (December ‘04)
Conference on Tsunami Reconstruction, Kobe, Japan,  (January 2005)
Autocad , Las Vegas 2005-2006
IBTTA (Philadelphia ‘04, Cleveland ‘05)
Council of Europe visit to Canada, Oct ‘05, October ‘06
PACOM (Kuala Lumpur 2006)
IFPA, Seoul, Korea, May 2006
Hudson Institute conference on Islam, Washington DC. May 2006
ATCM, Edinburgh, UK, June ‘06, New Delhi (2007)
Wheat Council/Tunisia, Fargo, ND.  September ‘06
Nuclear Regulatory Agencies International Meeting, October 2006
PACOM/CHOD meeting, Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia, Nov. 2006
USW conference, Dearborn, Mich. September 2007
French-American Foundation study tour, November 2006,  December 2007
ITUC conference Maryland, December 2007
Saturn, March 2008    Pepsi Congress , Greenwich Ct. June 2010.

World Youth Forum, Leon, Mexico, Aug. 2010.

VOICEOVER

German/English and French/English at C-Span TV.
Corporate voiceover at Front Row Studios, Annapolis, MD.
Voiceover for Gorman-Rupp  in Atlanta, York Corp, IFC.

EDUCATION

M.A.         Literature-NANCY University, France (1973)
M.A.         American Literature, Ball State University Muncie, IND. (1975)
Interpretation training course European Community Commission BRUSSELS (1976)

NATIONALITY

U.S.
French Mother tongue
33 years experience.