Barbara Baldi Email & Phone Number

LANGUAGES: Italian, French, English FIELDS OF EXPERTISE• Agricultural Politics, • Biotechnologies, • Cosmetics, • Cultural Anthropology, • International and European affairs,• MarketingMOST MEANINGFUL INTERPRETING ASSIGNMENTS2005 – 2008 Free-lance interpreter on the free market:Missions in Brussels and the rest of Europe on behalf of EWCs, Committee of the regions, Italian regions headquarters in Brussels, NGOs in their meetings with the EU Parliament and other EU institutions.2001 - 2004 Full time employee for the European farmers’ lobby: Copa Cogeca (www.copa-cogeca.be). Written translation of press releases, European legislation and position papers and simultaneous interpreter from English and French into Italian and from Italian into French. During plenary meetings and Presidia I translated several Commissioners and Ministers’ speeches.MOST MEANINGFUL TRANSLATION AND PROOFREADING ASSIGNMENTS2001 - 2008 Freelance interpreter.Freelance translation and proofreading work on a weekly basis. 2001 Proofreading of a CD for the Natural History Museum in London, several Star Trek episodes & “the Movie” (DVD subtitles), the film “Fatal attraction” for Paramount – IMS, London. 2001 Translation of the Aniwa – Royal Canin Dog Encyclopaedia.1999 - 2000 I further honed my abilities, working an in house translator for Berlitz – Xerox for whom I also validated marketing and software documentation. 1999 Tester of the online dictionary “Dicopro” by ISSCO (University of Geneva) 1997 Content tester for the project “Encarta World Atlas 1997” (Kermit – Microsoft)1994 One year as a consecutive interpreter for the “Centre for Mediterranean ethnology”, Aix en Provence (France) and the Sociology department of Naples University. Translation of all the necessary written documentation within the field of social sciences.1989 Swatch Catalogue”