Fernando Prieto Ramos

University of Geneva

Fernando Prieto Ramos is Full Professor and Director of the Centre for Legal and Institutional Translation Studies (Transius) at the University of Geneva’s Faculty of Translation and Interpreting. His work focuses on interdisciplinary approaches and quality assurance in legal and institutional translation in particular. He has published widely, and has received several academic awards, including an International Geneva Award from the Swiss Network for International Studies and a Consolidator Grant for his project on “Legal Translation in International Institutional Settings” (LETRINT). He is a former member of the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies at Dublin City University, and has translated for various institutions since 1997, including five years of in-house service at the World Trade Organization (dispute settlement team). 

Mira Kadrić

University of Vienna

Mira Kadrić is professor for Interpreting Studies and Didactics of Translation at the University of Vienna, Austria, where she is also Director of the Center for Translation Studies and head of the research group TransLaw. Her research focuses especially on empirical work on legal, political and diplomatic interpreting, and pedagogical issues of interpreting, drawing on her practical experience as an interpreter for the courts, public services, and political institutions. She has been researching court and public service interpreting for over 20 years. She is the Scientific Director of the Master’s training programme for Court and Public Service Interpreting for high-demand languages and organises specialisation courses for Translation and Interpreting Studies graduates (including speech-to-text interpreting, video and telephone interpreting) at the Postgraduate Center at the University of Vienna.