SVETLANA TASKAEVA • Freelance simultaneous and consecutive interpreter • Freelance fiction and technical translator • Editor • Graduate of Lomonosov Moscow State University and Moscow State Linguistic University • Russian (native), English (fluent, spoken/written, CPE Grade B)

• Freelance simultaneous and consecutive interpreter • Freelance fiction and technical translator • Editor • Graduate of Lomonosov Moscow State University and Moscow State Linguistic University • Russian (native), English (fluent, spoken/written, CPE Grade B) Education 2004-2006 Moscow State Linguistic University Course for Simultaneous Interpreting 2003-2004 Moscow British Council CPE course (Grade B certificate) 1997-2000 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Philology Postgraduate course (English literature) 1992-1997 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Philology Diploma with distinction in Russian Arts and Letters Professional Experience 2005 till present As a freelance simultaneous and consecutive interpreter, I provide conference, liason, telephone and marketing interpreting between the Russian and English languages for private clients, organizations, and translating agencies in Moscow and throughout Russia. Apart from vast array of firms in many industries and segments (including health & beauty, production & sales, construction, IT, education, law, banking & finance, advertising & PR, oil & gas, marketing, medicine), on the constant basis I interpret for SAP (CIS), Beiersdorf, CTCCapital. 2000 till present Contract translator of fiction and editor for Moscow publishing houses (Terra-Knizhny Klub, Panorama, AST, EXMO, Amadeus, Omega). Among my translations there are novels by Mary Stuart, a fantasy cycle by Joel Rosenberg, fairy tales by Emily Rodda. I edited the translation of Letters of J.R.R.Tolkien for EXMO and I am a co-author of Rosmen Publishing House’s Children Enciclopaedia on Barbarians.