Martha
Flórez de Briceño |
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| Professional Experience: 37 years of professional experience as a free-lance interpreter for conferences, meetings, courses and seminars on a broad range of topics, including: medicine, animal science, biotechnology, dentistry, management and economics, banking, IT, oil, politics, engineering and construction, environment, law and many others. Representative Sample of International Meetings (English/French/ Portuguese/Spanish: Third Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities in Science and Technology, Panamá Nov. 17-18, 2011; SELA Council, Oct., 2011; Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), Suriname, May 2-5, 2011; World Economic Forum 2010 – Cartagena April 7-8 - The Cartagena summit on a Mine Free World, Cartagena, Nov.29 – Dec. 4, 2009 - OAS General Assembly June 2009, Honduras - The Summit of the Americas, April, 2009, Trinidad -ECLAC: Puerto Rico July 2004 - Punta Cana, D.R. Jan 2003 - Aruba M y 1998 - Costa Rica1996; SELA - Annual Ministerial Council 1980 through 2009; OAS Meeting on Human Rights, May 1998. Caracas; OAS Meeting of Government Experts on Contributions for Electoral Campaigns, Feb. 98. Caracas; First Summit of Ministers of Culture, 1997 Medellín, Colombia; International Congress on Orofacial Pain, 1996 - Paris, France; Summit of Foreign Trade Ministers, 1996 - Cartagena, Colombia. XI Summit of Non Aligned Countries, 1995 - 1st International Symposium on Restaurative Justice - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Peace Nobel Price – Cali, Colombia, Feb. 2005; A Multicultural Caribbean United Against AIDS. ECLAC March 2004, Santo Domingo, D. R.; Second Ministerial Conference of Developing Countries on Environment and Development, 1992 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Representative Sample of Conferences and Seminars (Spanish/English): IMF Mission to Colombia, Nov. 21-28, 2011; Alltech’s Presidents Club Shanghai, Beijing, Sept. 2011; Atlanta Poultry Show (Annually 2002 - 2012); Alltech Latin American Lecture Tour (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala & Mexico - annually 1999 – 2011); Alltech’s International Animal Health and Nutrition Symposium, Lexington, Ky, USA (2000 – 2011); Dr. Louis Ignarro, Nobel Price of Medicine, Leti Laboratories, Dec. 2004 Caracas; International World Psychiatry Congress, October 2004, Caracas; FTAA Negotiations, Dominican Republic, Jan. 2004 and Cartagena, Colombia May 2004; First PAHO Congress on Harmonization of Drugs, Jan 1999. Caracas: I International Congress of Mercantile Law, Nov 1998. Caracas; International Congress of Trauma and Orthopedics, Oct 1998, Bogotá, Colombia & Cartagena September 2000; Iberoamerican Congress of Osteology and Mineral Metabolism, Jun 1998. Caracas; Roth Williams Society of Orthodontics, May 1998. Dallas, Texas, USA; World Congress on Violence 98, March 1998. Caracas; Management 98, March 1998, Caracas; ILAFA Annual Conference, October, 1998. Margarita; III Hemispheric Meeting of Energy Ministers, Jan 1998, Caracas; Congress of the American Association for the Study of Headache (AASH), 1997 - Cancun, Mexico. Meeting of the Ibero-American Academy of Maxillofacial Surgery, 1996, Paris & Madrid. Interpreting for Television and Broadcasting - Venevisión 1997 - 2011: Miss World, Miss. Universe; Annual Academy Awards Ceremony - OSCAR. Webinars: CORFERIAS, Bogotá, Colombia. Education and Degrees Certificate of Proficiency in English, Cambridge University, England (1968) Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia - School of Languages (1969-1971) Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá , Colombia - Interpreter/Translator Diploma (1973) Cours de Civilisation Française, Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, France (1982) Advanced Portuguese Program, Instituto Cultural Brasil-Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela (1995) Memberships AIIC
(International Association of Conference Interpreters) - Member since
1978. |