Highlights of Recent Simultaneous Interpreting Experience (next update: August 2010)

· EU-China Technical Working Group meeting on Gallileo/Compass; 2 days, Consecutive interpreting, DG Tren, Brissels, 10-11/06/2009

· 2-day EU-China Human Rights Dialogue; Simultaneous, Prague, Czech Republic, 12-13/05/2009

· 2-day EU-China High Level Meeting led by the EU’s Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton and Vice Premier Wang Qishan – interpreting for Baroness Ashton during her bilateral meetings with Vice Premier Wang and for the plenary. Consecutive & Simultaneous, Berlaymont Building, Brussels, 07-08/05/2009

· G20 London Summit: Interpreting for the UK’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown during his Bilateral Meeting with President Hu Jintao at No 10 Downing Street (1st April); for the Summit Plenary at the Excel Centre (2nd April); and for the Chinese Finance Minister Xie Xuren at the Finance Ministers’ Working Breakfast and Working Lunch (2nd April), London, 04/2009

· Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 Spyder Global Launch, Simultaneous, Tenerife, Spain, 21/03/2009

· 5th World Water Forum, Heads of State Summit, simultaneous, Istanbul, 16/03/2009

· AB Agri annual conference, simultaneous, West Midlands (Birmingham), 13/03/2009

· DG SCIC, EU-China Automotive Working Group round-table, BREY Building, Consecutive interpreting, European Commission, Brussels, 04/03/2009

· UK Cabinet Office sponsored seminar on Emergency Planning and Civil Protection, 2-week training, York, UK, Simultaneous and Consecutive, 8 -19/12/2008

· GlaxoSmithklein (GSK), West London, several 1-day events, 11/2008, 06/2008, etc

· ABB-China State Grid Study Tour, Simultaneous and Consecutive Interpreting, Switzerland (Electrical Engineering and Finance topics), 11/2008 & 04/2008 (2 weeks each time)

· Olympic Debriefing, 5-day event, simultaneous,Central London, 11/2008

· EU Product Safety Week, 5-day conference, Simultaneous, Charlemagne, European Commission, Brussels, 11/2008

· Airport Expansion Conference, Simultaneous, Central London, 1 day, 10/2008

· 2-day Tesco Mall Directors conference, Simultaneous, London, 09/2008

· UK Foreign Office assigned interpreting, Government-sponsored R&D Evaluation, 5 days London 06/2008

· BBC Television Centre, White City, London, 2 days, 05/2008

· Aviva PR / Media Reception, 2 days, Simultaneous , Central London, 05/2008

· Pfizer, Drug Clinical Trial, 1 day researchers meeting, Simultaneous, London, 04/2008

· Industrial and Commercial Bank of China - Spectrum Capital UK (a financial and specialist aircraft leasing company), the City, Central London, 03/2008

· Jaguar XF Global Launch, 3-days, Nice & Monaco, Simultaneous & Consecutive, 02/2008

· Lean Production, 3-day Management Training, Shanghai Electric Power Company, Helsinki, Finland, 12/07

· Land Rover New Product Launch, 2 days, Simultaneous, Athens, 12/2007

· 3-day Arab-Asian Investment Conference, Simultaneous, Dubai, UAE, 12/07

· UKTI-CIRC round table, with Prudential, Aviva, Standard Life, Simultaneous, London 11/07

· Credit Suisse, investor/fund manager briefing day, the City, Central London, 11/2007

· Goethe Business School, University of Frankfurt: 2 week Leadership Training for Executives from China Development Bank, Frankfurt, 11/2007

· EU-China Business Summit, Maritim Hotel, Simultaneous, Central Frankfurt, 11/2007

· Ofcom & MII (China Ministry of Information Industry) Round Table, Ofcom Headquarters, Simultaneous, Central London, 11/2007

· Welsh Assembly, Meetings between the First Minister for Wales and Chairman of Chongqing People’s Congress, Cardiff, UK, 10/2007

· China-EU Forum – Demography, 3-day symposium, consecutive interpreting, Paris, 10/2007

· Banco de España / People’s Bank of China, Madrid, 10/2007

· Nokia Channel Partners Annual Conference, 3 days, Lisbon, 10/2007

· China Development Bank Executive Technical Training, 2-week consecutive interpreting, Bradford University, UK, 09/2007

· Bentley Cars Ltd, Leicester 2-day PR Event, 09/2007

· Finland-China CleanTech Conference, Lahti, Finland, 08/2007

· World Digital Cities 2-day Conference, Dundee, Scotland, 08/2007

· Wyeth Medical Conference, 1 day, Athans, 08/2007

· China-EU Arms Export Control (WMD) & Industry Outreach, 3-day Confidential Seminar, FCO & BERR, Central London & Thales Facilities, South London, 08/2007

· UK – China Higher Education Seminar, HEFCE 3-day Round-table, London, 07/2007

· 60th World Association of Newspapers, Annual Conference (since 2003), Cape Town, S. Africa, 06/2007

· House of Lords, Joint Committee on [Carbon Reduction] Conventions, Palace of Westminster, Central London, 06/2007

· HSBC-China’s Bank of Communications, 2-week Executive Training, Simultaneous interpreting throughout, North London, 06/2007