Experience

since 2019	President of the Slovene Association of Conference Interpreters.
since 2006	A sole entrepreneur, freelance interpreter and translator for English, German, Dutch and Croatian.
2005 - 2010	A teaching assistant at the MA course in conference interpreting offered by the Faculty of Arts (University of Ljubljana), and held a course in interpreting for translators employed at various Government ministries preparing for Slovenia’s EU Council Presidency.
2003 - 2005	Employed at the Translation and Editing Service at the Secretary-General’s Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia as interpreter and translator.
1998 - 2001	Part-time work as a translator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia.
since 2002	Part-time work as a subtitler for Discovery, Animal Planet and History.
2001 - 2002	Taught an English course for adult learners at the Public Education and Training Institution in Kranj.
1996 - 2001	Part-time work as a subtitler at POP TV and A Kanal commercial TV stations.

Education and Training

January 2005	Postgraduate degree in Modern English Language at the University of Ljubljana with the thesis Methodological Approaches to Interpreter Training.
January 2003	Accredited as a freelance interpreter in European Institutions.
July 2002	Completed a postgraduate Specialist Course for Conference Interpreters at the University of Ljubljana.
September 1999	Graduated in English and German languages and translation at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana with the theses Dictionary of Slovene-English False Friends (letters D, U), and Dubbing and/or Subtitling.

I have also undertaken continuous further professional education and training at the Universities of Bradford (UK), Graz (AU), Germersheim (DE), Würzburg (DE), Utrecht (NL), Nijenrode (NL) and Zadar (CRO), as well as attended traineeship programmes and refresher courses offered by European Institutions.