Hi, I am Dagmar Sanjath and I work as a translator both in an in-house capacity and free-lance, specialising mostly in legal and financial translation. My languages are German, English and French. I am based in Vienna, Austria, where I also completed my translation degree (sometime during the last millennium…).

In addition to working as a translator, I also teach at Vienna University’s Centre of Translation Studies, introducing future graduates to the problems and pitfalls they might be facing when they leave university and try to start a career. How do I know about these things apart from personal experience? I am currently Secretary General of UNIVERSITAS Austria, the Austrian Interpreters’ and Translators’ Association, on whose board I have served for quite number of years now in different roles. My latest addition in terms of association functions is Secretary General of FIT Europe, a function I was elected to last November and which implies having to keep abreast with developments in the field of translation all around Europe.

While this is one of the reasons I am looking forward to this year’s ITI conference, I also have fond memories of the last one, which was a really brilliant and exciting event. I am sure that the upcoming conference will be just as interesting and as much fun – see you there!