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LIND Group members

LIND has up to 12 members, appointed for a 6-year term through a public call for applications published in the Register of Commission expert groups.  A representative of DG Translation chairs the group. 

LIND Group members

Britta Aagaard

Chief Business Officer at Semantix, executive leadership team member at TransPerfect, board member for the Globalisation and Localisation Association (GALA) and LT Innovate

Lucio Bagnulo

Deputy Programme Director, Head of Translation and Language Strategy at Amnesty International 

Oleksandr Bondarenko

CEO of Translatel Ltd, associate professor at Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State University

Diego Cresceri

CEO and founder of Creative Words, board member for the European Language Industry Association (ELIA) and the Canadian Language Industry Association (CLIA)

Panayota Georgakopoulou

Localisation professional and owner of Athena Consultancy, steering committee member for Languages & The Media conference, founder of Greece Chapter of Women in Localisation

Balázs Kis

Co-CEO and co-founder of memoQ, board member for the Globalisation and Localisation Association (GALA)

Beate Kuhl

Language technology professional at the German Federal Office of Languages

John O'Shea

Chairperson of FIT Europe (Regional Centre Europe of the Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs), member of Panhellenic Association of Translators

Mirko Silvestrini

CEO of Rapitrad, President of UNILINGUE (Italian Association of Translation Companies), EU Ambassador for the European Union of Associations of Translation Companies (EUATC)

Andrej Vasiļjevs

Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Tilde, board member for the Big Data Value Association (BDVA)