Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State, December 7, 2023, Washington DC, Anti-Corruption Champions Award Ceremony at the Department of State Burns Auditorium.Jerry Brown Governor of California, 14 September, 2018, Global Climate Action Summit, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CaliforniaMelania Trump, International Women of Courage Award Ceremony, U.S. Department of State, March 29, 2017French Minister of Economy and Finance Michel Sapin visit to San Francisco City Hall, Silicon Valley companies and Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show (CES), January 2017President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff, Condeleezza Rice, George Shultz, Mark Zuckerberg and other leaders at Stanford, July 1 2015.French Minister of Interior Bernard Cazeneuve, February 21, 2015, Interpreter for his meetings with Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Senator Dianne Feinstein.President of France François Hollande, Feb. 2, 2014, Interpreter for his visit to San Francisco areaAs a United Nation staff interpreter and translator, I trained local and international staff in Rwanda (1994), Angola (1994-1999) and Kosovo (1999-2000). As a contractor I have trained mainly in Kosovo and Sarajevo over the past decade.

I've been self-employed most of the time, but also held salaried positions with the UN (1994- 2000), International Criminal Court (2005-6) and Monterey Institute of International Studies (2006-7)

I was hired by the Quai d'Orsay (French presidency) to interpret for president François Hollande and his delegation during their visit to the San Francisco area. In addition to the president participants included several ministers and a group of French and US high tech firm leaders, including Mitchell Baker, Executive Chair of Mozilla; Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce; Jack Dorsey, Chairman and co-founder of both Twitter and Square; Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook; Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google; Tony Fadell, Founder and CEO of Nest; and Tony Bates, Executive VP of Microsoft.

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I was the main instructor for interpretation and translation from French to English

Interpreting hearings, meetings from Spanish and French into English generally. Translating judgments and other official Court documents, etc.

At the request of mission leadership, I created the Language Unit, which became the team of 12 translators and interpreters in support of the UN mission in Kosovo. I also trained them and held training for UN police and other field interpreters and translators.