Mentoring for the future

Francesca Matteoda MITI

Francesca Matteoda started translating in-house in 1997 and has been working as a freelance translator since 2000. She specialises in medical and pharmaceutical translations from French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish into UK English and is also a fully qualified hatha yoga instructor. She was born and raised in London’s West End, but has been living in Madrid, Spain, since 2001. She has been a Qualified member of ITI since 2007, and a mentor for ITI MedNet since 2016 and for SpanNet since 2019. She takes CPD very seriously, and always exceeds the recommended 30 hours/year of CPD. She loves the profession and is constantly striving to increase her involvement so much so that she joined the Board of ITI in May 2021.

David Beattie MITI

David Beattie, a founder member of ITI, is a retired German to English translator specialising in medicine and pharmaceuticals. He also holds advanced accreditation from the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA). From 1973 he was a staff translator and latterly medical writer with Hoechst UK Ltd (eventually Sanofi-Aventis) before turning freelance in 2000, since when he has translated 13 medical textbooks and edited 100+ articles published in peer-reviewed medical journals. He is a long-serving committee member of ITI’s Medical & Pharmaceutical Network whose Newsletter he has edited for the past 15 years and whose original translation workshop concept he formulated some 35 years ago. In 2019 he was the inaugural winner of ITI’s ‘Mentor of the Year’ award.

Andrew Godfrey MITI

Dr. Andrew Godfrey MITI is the coordinator of the ITI German Network. He has been working as a translator and proofreader/editor since 2008, specialising in academic writing and texts on cultural and political topics.

Gillian Shaw MITI

Before retraining as a translator, I worked as a Knowledge Management Consultant for an international IT company. Part of my role was to provide mentoring programmes for the technologist community as well as implementing knowledge-sharing processes for both the internal workforce and our customers. This has led me to be an advocate of knowledge sharing and community building as part of developing a stronger profession now that I am a translator – hence taking up the role of Coordinator for the ITI Italian Network.

I have been a freelance translator for over 5 years. I work from French and Italian into English with specialisms in the areas of Sport, Travel & Tourism and Wine – and any overlap between these. My preferred text would be a marketing blog/article on any of these subject areas but I do also enjoy translating social media copy and business documents.