Gerard M. Maré
Free-lance Conference Interpreter

EDUCATION:

.....U.C. Berkeley, Ph.D. Candidate, April 1985.
.....Beijing Normal University, intensive language training and preliminary dissertation research,
.....June-December 1983.
.....U.C. Berkeley, Ph.D. qualifying examinations in Politics of East Asia, Comparative Politics, and Public
.....Administration, May 1983.
.....U.C. Berkeley, M.A., Political Science, June 1981. G.P.A.: 3.97.
.....Simon Fraser University (Canada) B.A. 1st Cl. Honors, Political Science, May 1979.
.....Swarthmore College, 1967-1970. Majored in Psychology and English Literature. Active in student government.

EMPLOYMENT:

.....Free-lance conference interpreter, English/French & French/English, 1975 to present. Qualified for
.....assignments with U.S. Department of State.
.....Adjunct Lecturer, Hong Kong University, on Vietnam War, winter/spring 2002.
.....Founder, Director, Conference Interpreters of British Columbia, an agency providing conference
.....interpretation services throughout the Canadian West, 1975-1979.
.....Translator, (written), for various organizations on a free-lance basis. 1973-1975.

LANGUAGES:

.....Language combination as an interpreter: French A, English B.
.....Conversational partial fluency in modern Mandarin Chinese.

AWARDS/HONORS:

.....Co-recipient, ‘81-82 U.C. Berkeley J.R. Levenson Chinese Studies Award, an interdisciplinary biennial
.....award for excellence in Chinese studies.
.....Boeing Award/Plaque "in appreciation of your outstanding simultaneous interpretation support of the
.....Boeing/UK/France AWACS program 1988 - 1991".
.....Chief Interpreter, UCLA-Centre Beaubourg Teleconference on French Revolution Bicentennial. A recorded
.....extract of my interpretation became part of a Centre Beaubourg .exhibit in 1989.
.....Ex-Presidents Meeting on the Balkans, President's Ford private residence with Presidents Gerald Ford,
.....Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Helmut Schmidt, Lord Callahan in Vail, June '93.
.....OSCARS live Simulcast on Canal +, Feb. '04 (400,000 listeners).

DISSERTATION:

.....“Leninist Decay and Transition Politics in Post-Mao China.”

SAMPLE LIST OF CONFERENCE INTERPRETATION ASSIGNMENTS 1982-2007.

.....Canadian Federal/Provincial Health Ministers Meeting, Vancouver, Sept.’82.
.....Boeing AWACS Preliminary Design Review & Progress Review, Seattle,
.....Feb.’88 and London, U.K., March ‘88, Dec.’89, ‘90, ‘91, ‘92.
.....UCLA-Centre Beaubourg Teleconference on French Revolution Bicentennial,
.....(chief interpreter) May ‘89.
.....VIth International Conference on AIDS, San Francisco, June ‘90.
.....NATO AGARD Propulsion and Energy Panel, San Antonio, May ‘91.
.....Private Meeting on Balkans, [Presidents Ford & d’Estaing, Chancellor Schmidt,
.....Lord Callahan, Vukobrat] Vail, June ‘93.
.....Microsoft Developers Satellite Broadcasts, Seattle, ‘93-’94.
.....International Artists Rights Symposium, Beverly Hills, April ’94.
.....Association of Operating Room Nurses, Hamburg, Germany, Aug. ’95.
.....FIM (World Motorcycling Federation) Congress, Bangkok, Oct. ‘96.
.....International Seapower Symposium, Newport, R.I., Nov.’97
.....US-Tunisia Joint Military Talks, Tunis, Oct. ‘98
.....Attracting Capital to Africa Summit, Houston, April ‘99
.....OECD Conference on Electronic Authentication, Stanford, June ’99
.....VIIth Medicial Conference on the History of Medicine, Galveston, Sept.’00
.....Herbalife Masters Meeting, Cancun, Oct.’00
.....Carrefour Master Program, Shanghai, Dec.’00.
.....World Dental Federation Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Sept. ’01
.....FAO Asia/Pacific Ministerial Conference, Kathmandu, May ‘02
.....OECD Conference on Broadband, Seoul, June ‘02
.....Chiefs of Defense Meeting, Singapore, Oct.30-Nov.3, ‘02
.... World Bank Judges Forum, Malibu, May '03
.... US/Morocco Trade Talks, Washington, D.C., July '03
.... TICAD Meeting on African Development, Tokyo, Sept. '03
.... Government Procurement Consultations - Morocco, Washington, D.C., Oct. '04
.... Golden Globes Red Carpet - L.A., Jan '05
.... ATP (Tennis) Players Meeting - Indiana Wells, California, March '05
.... NATO Parliamentry Assembly Defense Committee - San Diego, Jan '06
.... Beyster Institute Entrepreneurship MENA region - San Diego, March '07
.... Rotary International Convention, Salt Lake City June '07
.... Bibendum Challenge, Michelin - Shanghai, Nov. '07
.... ISO Technical Committee 224 - Tokyo, Nov. '07
...... FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius WG Pesticide Residues, Hangzhou, April '08
...... Beijing Olympics and Paralympics, Beijing, Aug.-Sept. '08
...... OECD Education Policy Co., Seoul Sept. '08
...... United Nations ESCAP, Bangkok, Sept. '08
.......UNWTO 6th Forum for Parliamentarians and Local Authorities, Cebu, Philippines, Oct. '08
...... FAO International Poplars Commission, Beijing, Oct. '08
..... UNESCO ICPRCP Meeting, Seoul, Nov. '08
..... EU-Beijing Dialogue on Human Rights, Beijing, Nov. '08