Mrs Elena Edwards MITI

Over 20 years’ experience translating and interpreting for City financial and legal firms. Before becoming a professional translator and interpreter, I spent several years in the financial sector (reinsurance and banking, SFDR-accredited) in the UK and US. As an interpreter, I am particularly experienced in litigation & dispute resolution, including international arbitration, investment disputes, criminal, libel, immigration, human rights and family law; banking and finance; insurance and reinsurance; accounting; medicine; mining, power and energy.

I am a qualified member of AIIC (International Association of Conference Interpreters), and a member of the British-Russian Law Association and British-Kazakh Law Association. My working languages for simultaneous and consecutive interpreting are English, Russian and Belarusian (I also translate and interpret from Ukrainian and Polish). For interpreting via videoconferencing, I am familiar with all the main RSI platforms.

ITI membership category: MITI

  • ITI Assessed

Translation

English Russian
ITI Assessed
Russian English
ITI Assessed
Ukrainian English
ITI Assessed
Belarusian English  
Polish English  

Interpreting

Interpreting type
  • Community
  • Business
Language pairs
Belarusian Polish  
Belarusian English  
Belarusian Russian  
English Polish  
English Belarusian  
English Russian  
Polish English  
Polish Belarusian  
Polish Russian  
Russian Polish  
Russian English  
Russian Belarusian  

Conference Interpreting

A Language B Language C Language
Russian English  
Language pairs
English Russian  
Russian English  

Specialisms

  • Alternative therapies
  • Architecture and building
  • Arts
  • Banking
  • Business
  • Clinical trials
  • Computer software
  • Contracts
  • Engineering
  • EU - Finance
  • EU - General and political
  • EU - Law justice and human rights
  • EU matters
  • Film
  • TV and Video
  • Health and safety
  • Information technology
  • Insurance
  • Law
  • Law - Civil
  • Law - Commercial and company
  • Law - International
  • Law - Probate and family
  • Law - Property
  • Mechanical engineering
  • Pharmaceuticals

Associated skills

  • Abstracting
  • Adaptation
  • Editing
  • Proofreading
  • Software localization
  • Transcription
  • Voiceovers

Technology

  • Adobe Acrobat

CPD achieved within last 6 years