Member since Dec '08

Working languages:
English to French
Portuguese to French
French to Portuguese
English to Portuguese
French to English

Yves Bergougnoux
A half-blood’s look at Brazil and Europe

Asnières-sur-Seine, Ile-De-France, France
Local time: 20:16 CEST (GMT+2)

Native in: French (Variants: Standard-France, Haitian, Canadian, Swiss, Belgian, African) Native in French
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A translator and an interpreter with experience of 20+ years, mainly in Brazil


2020: relocated to France, looking for a position as staff translator or interpreter with a multilateral organisationA full member of the Société Française des Traducteurs (SFT) since February.

Currently training Remote Simultaneous Interpreting (RSI) platforms: Kudo, iBridgePeople, Interprefy.

1998-2019: founded and managed Idiomatique Traduções Ltda, a B-to-B LSP based in Rio de Janeiro.

1995-1997: launched and managed Atout Brésil, a 16-page pre-Internet business newsletter in French on Brazilian economy; foreign correspondent in Brazil for the French leading financial daily Les Echos.

1987: Master in Management from ESSEC, French leading business school.

 

A CONFERENCE INTERPRETER

Personally interpreted 1,306 days from/into FR APT-BR AEN B (retour) as of 2 October 2021

Approximately FR< >PT-BR: 70%, EN < > PT-BR: 20%, EN < > FR: 10% and growing

Live experience on TV/radio. Solid consecutive technique.

AIIC: pre-candidate in 2004 and listed member until 2009.

Special achievements:

-The World Economic Forum Latin America in São Paulo, March 2018: chief interpreter (team of 20);

-Rio 2016: chief interpreter (team of 8) of 17 talk shows w/ famous Olympians on channel SporTV (Globo)

-FIFA 2014: chief interpreter (team of 5) of 10 talk shows with football world cup winners on SporTV;

-Rio+20, 2012: chief interpreter for the French pavilion and for a UN side event on alternative financing.

--> Proven track record in pics & clips (1998-2019): www.linkedin.com/in/yves-bergougnoux-5118197


A TRANSLATOR 

Technical and literary translations + proofreading.

Contract signed on 6 October 2020 with Dutch NGO SNV Netherlands Organisation for FR < > EN.

A freelancer for the IMF: ongoing annual contract renewed since 2012.

Economics | management | marketing | finance | accounting | law;

Human & social sciences: psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology;

Arts & culture: dramaturgy, screenplays, literature

Energy/environment: power, oil & gas, ecology, waste & water treatment;

Sports: football, rugby, and the remaining Olympic disciplines.

CAT platforms: MemSource Cloud, MateCat, SmartCat; CAT tools: CafeTran, learning SDL Trados 2019.

Special achievements:

EN > FR: negotiation handbook "Faciliter la concertation", published in France by Eyrolles.

PT-BR > FR: screenplays and subtitling for Brazilian feature films; "N'en parlez à personne", history of psychoanalysis, published by L'Harmattan; 

FR > PT-BR: negotiation book "Manual de Negociações Complexas", published in Brazil by FGV Editora;

EN > PT-BR: negotiation handbook "Quando a maioria não basta", published in Brazil by FGV Editora.

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