Conference & business interpreter and translator since 1995, working for multinational companies, government departments, law firms and international organisations; well-versed with dealing with highly technical material;

Senior lecturer in interpreting at London Metropolitan University from 2006 - 2015;

Regular use of various RSI platforms (Interprefy, Interactio, KUDO, VoiceBoxer/Boostlingo, QuaQua etc.) and web-conferencing tools such as Zoom, MS Teams or Webex;

Born, bred and educated in Germany; holder of two degrees in conference interpreting and translation (University of Vienna & University of Bradford);

Primarily based in London these days with regular, extended periods spent in my German birth village, hence genuinely 'bicultural' and fully immersed in both cultures.

Member of the ITI Council (today the ITI Board) from 2010 to 2012.

Co-author of the 2011 ITI/CIOL Rates and Salaries Survey, the most comprehensive survey of this kind ever published in the UK.

I have also run webinars for interpreters, e.g. "Solo Simultaneous Interpreting - Traditions, Research and New Challenges" (2023) or "Terps and the Machine - Use Cases and Challenges of Machine Translation in Real-life Interpreting Contexts" (2024).

Here are some links to articles I have published in the ITI Bulletin:

New formats in remote simultaneous interpreting (2021) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/udo-jorg-84b44811_a-stream-within-a-stream-udo-jorg-july-activity-6817739903737073665-XS6H?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Research insights into 'tech for terps' (2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/udo-jorg-84b44811_udo-jorg-research-insights-into-tech-for-activity-7037075527110651905-sPIN?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

ITI membership category: MITI

Specialisms

• Advertising
• Alternative therapies
• Banking
• Business
• Commerce
• Economics
• EU - Energy and environment
• EU - Finance
• EU - General and political
• EU matters
• Finance
• Health and safety
• Industrial relations
• Management
• Marketing
• Pharmaceuticals
• Wine and spirits

Associated skills

• Abstracting
• Adaptation
• Copywriting
• Editing
• Language training
• Proofreading
• Revising
• Subtitling
• Transcription
• Voiceovers

CPD achieved within last 6 years