Our Consultant Interpreters
Auckland – Bangkok – Seoul – Sydney – Taipei
AUCKLAND
Shareef Issa has over 20 years experience in conference/TV-Broadcasting interpreting. He has covered major speeches and statements for world leaders, heads of states, breaking news, special interviews and presidential campaign televised debates, carried live by premier broadcasting corporations for more than 50 million viewers in the MENA region.
He interpreted at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in 2014 in Brisbane, Australia, and works regularly as a conference interpreter for high profile clients and organizations including UNODC, UN Women, IMF, G20, AMF, IDB and many other regional organizations. After living in Dubai, UAE, for 12 years, he moved to Auckland, New Zealand. He is a member of AIIC, NZSTI, NAATI and the Chartered Institute of Linguists.
Professional Address: Auckland
Languages: ARABIC, English
Email: issa@ciap.net
BANGKOK
Suzanne Kobine-Roy has been a freelance simultaneous conference interpreter and translator since 1998. She is accredited to the United Nations and the European Union and is a former member of the Advisory Board of AIIC, the International Association of Conference Interpreters.
She works as a simultaneous conference interpreter for international organisations such as the United Nations, high-level government meetings, diplomatic visits, NGOs and the private sector, and was a regular member of the interpretation team at the Khmer Rouge Trials in Cambodia. She also supports corporate clients across a broad range of sectors, from board level to IPO roadshows and management training. As a consultant interpreter, she has organised large teams of conference interpreters for international meetings including G7 Summits and ministerial meetings, as well as ASEAN and APEC events.
She has a background in European law from the Universities of Exeter (UK) and Aix-en-Provence (France) and lived in Singapore and Thailand for 10 years. She is currently based in Geneva.
Nationality: British & French
Professional Address: Geneva
Languages: ENGLISH, French, Spanish
Email: kobine@ciap.net
SEOUL
Jean Young LEE was born in 1957 in Seoul, Korea, and has lived in the North America, Europe, North Africa, Middle East, South & Southeast Asia, and Australia. She received a B.A. degree in French Language and Literature from Ewha Womans University, a B.F.A degree from Rhode Island School of Design, and a M.A. degree in Conference Interpretation from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. A member of AIIC since 2006, she has also trained interpretation students for the past 15 years at Hankuk University, Monterey Institute of International Studies, and Ewha Womans University. Jean has organized interpretation services for numerous conferences, including the Seoul G20 Summit, and provides cross-cultural communication training and consulting to Korean public and private organizations.
Nationality : Korea
Professional Address : Seoul
Languages : KOREAN, English
Email : jeanyounglee@ciap.net
SYDNEY
Nationality: Australian
Professional address: Sydney
Languages: SPANISH, ENGLISH, French
Email: pastor@ciap.net
TAIPEI
Marsha Man-Hua CHOU holds a BA from Tamkang University, Taiwan and graduated as conference interpreter from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA. She has worked as a conference interpreter in Asia since 1990 and organized teams of interpreters for several years. She interpreted for all the Bilateral Negotiations on Taiwan’s Accession into the World Trade Organization in Geneva and various capitals from 1993 to 2001. She has taught interpretation at the National Taiwan Normal University and Fujen Catholic University, Taiwan, University of Bath, UK, and Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA. Marsha is member of AIIC.
Nationality: Taiwanese
Professional address: Taipei
Languages: CHINESE, English
Email: chou@ciap.net
