Sworn translators

A number of sworn translators are SENSE members.  Before hiring a sworn translator, remember to check their Wbtv number against the official registry of sworn translators to see if their sworn registration is still current.

 

Sense Online has 30 registered members

Ian James Gaukroger

Dutch to English
Wbtv 2517
Services: editing, language teaching, translating
Specialities: law
Qualifications: Master of Music, University of Rochester NY
Experience: 23 years as a legal translator. Also: regular translations for Classical music clients
Amsterdam
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Arsen Nazarian

Dutch to English, Armenian to Dutch, Dutch to Armenian, Farsi (Iran) to Dutch, Dutch to Farsi (Iran)
Wbtv 961
Services: editing
Specialities: business, communications and media, finance, government, health and medicine, information technology, law, literary, social sciences
Qualifications: Bachelor degree in Translation Dutch-English, Bachelor of Political Sciences
Experience: More than 30 years in translation business
The Hague
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Mike Miles

Wbtv 0
Services: editing
Specialities: law
Qualifications: Master of Science
Experience: 18 years of translating, editing and proofreading, together with my partner who is a sworn translator
Maastricht
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Arienne van den Dries

Dutch to English, English to Dutch
Wbtv 3129
Services: editing, proofreading, translating
Specialities: communications and media, finance, law, literary
Qualifications: MA in English language and literature
Experience: - translator at Ernst & Young (2 years)
- editor/translator at NautaDutilh (11 years)
- part-time freelance editor/translator at AKD (3 years)
Leiden
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Simon Edwards

Dutch to English
Wbtv 40487
Services: editing, proofreading, translating
Specialities: business, engineering and technology, finance, law
Qualifications: FCA - Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. BSc(Eng) in Chemical Engineering (University College London)
Enkhuizen
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Margreet van Rijswijk

English to Dutch, Dutch to English
Wbtv 2985
Services: editing, proofreading, translating
Specialities: health and medicine, law
Experience: Finished ITV Utrecht in 2004 and as of 2005 freelance translator/editor English to Dutch and Dutch to English, with 1 1/2 years working as assistant project manager on project English translation of a Dutch medical dictionary, QA and final and substantive editing. Specialties are medical (DSM-V), pharmaceutical and legal translations. Additionally, I translate cookbooks. Previous medical background as a nurse.
Haarlem
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Marilyn Hedges

Dutch to English
Wbtv 4518
Services: copywriting, editing, language teaching, proofreading, translating
Specialities: arts and culture, business, communications and media, education, literary, social sciences
Qualifications: MA in Historical Sociolinguistics/BA in English Language anc Culture/ BA in Translation
Experience: In-house translator and editor for Leiden University since 2003. Coordinator/translator/editor of the Academic Language Centre at Leiden University.

Freelance translator since 2000 for government organisations, business clients, consultancies, academic clients,

Book translations (academic / scientific non-fiction).
Approved translator Nederlands Letterenfonds.
The Hague
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Kirsten van Hasselt-Schelleman

Dutch to English
Wbtv 3922
Services: translating
Specialities: health and medicine
Qualifications: BSc Applied Science; Marketing Diploma; ITV
Woerden
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Lisette Eindhoven

English to Dutch, Dutch to English
Wbtv 5316
Services: editing, journalism, proofreading, translating
Specialities: arts and culture, communications and media, law, social sciences, sports and recreation
Qualifications: Master Cultural Anthropology, Bachelor of Translation
Experience: Freelance journalist and proofreader/corrrector (Dutch only) since 2007. Freelance translator Dutch - English and English - Dutch and proofreader/corrector English - Dutch since 2013.
Zutphen
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Brendan Feeney

Dutch to English
Wbtv 40318
Services: copywriting, editing, interpreting, language teaching, proofreading, training, transcription, translating
Specialities: arts and culture, business, communications and media, education, health and medicine, law, literary, social sciences, sports and recreation
Qualifications: English Teaching Degree 2nd grade (Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science), French & German Teaching Degree 1st grade (Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science), PGCE Modern Languages (Edge Hill University College), B.A. Combined Hons. in German and French Language and Literature (University of Reading)
Experience: Provider of Dutch, English, French and German language services to corporate and private clients (1995-present).

Specialist field: Dutch-English translation and interpreting projects involving professional football organisations (UEFA, FIFA), clubs, players and the media.

Teacher of English, French and German at primary, secondary and tertiary level educational establishments in both England and The Netherlands (1997-present).
Amsterdam
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Woutera Willemsen

English to Dutch, Dutch to English
Wbtv 547
Nijmegen
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Margriet Hunter

Dutch to English
Wbtv 5177
Services: editing, proofreading, translating
Specialities: arts and culture, communications and media, government, health and medicine, law, social sciences
Qualifications: BA (Hons) History of Art, B Tr
Lisse
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Christien Ettema

English to Dutch, Dutch to English
Wbtv 189
Services: copywriting, editing, proofreading, training, translating
Specialities: agriculture and fisheries, natural sciences
Qualifications: M.Sc. Agriculture, Ph.D. Ecology, kort-hbo Vertaler Engels
Experience: GREEN and NATURAL are my keywords!
* NATURAL as in “I am commited to making natural translations”: idiomatic, sense-for-sense rather than word-for-word translations, into natural English or natural Dutch.
* GREEN as in “green expertise”: Owing to my previous career and education (MSc agriculture, PhD ecology) my areas of expertise are agriculture, ecology, nature conservation and environmental sciences.
* GREEN as in “green business practice”: My language service is a sustainable business.
Please visit my website to learn more!
Enschede
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Naomi Gilchrist

Dutch to English, English to Dutch
Wbtv 28781
Services: proofreading, transcription, translating
Specialities: arts and culture, business, communications and media, education
Qualifications: Bachelor of Arts – Translator English
Almere
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Paulien Copper

Dutch to English, English to Dutch
Wbtv 3425
Services: translating
Specialities: education, health and medicine
Qualifications: BA degree in organic farming (1984) and BA degree in Dutch / English translation (1990)
Experience: Over 25 years of experience as a medical translator for universities, publishers, journals, scientists and patient organisations. Specialised in translating educational materials (syllabi, regulations, exams), academic texts (PhD theses, publications) and questionnaires (validations).
Maastricht
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Jasper Pauwels

Dutch to English, Dutch to French, English to Dutch, French to Dutch
Wbtv 16467
Services: editing, proofreading, translating
Specialities: business, communications and media, finance, government, law
Qualifications: Master of Arts; Bachelor of Translation
Experience: September 2017 – present
Freelance translator as Pauwels Translations
Translation and revision from English and French into Dutch. Main areas of expertise are legal and marketing. Legal translation examples include terms and conditions, agreements and privacy notices. Some examples of marketing translation are product descriptions and commercial texts on apps, consumer electronics, e-learning, games and software.
Mopertingen
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Alison Gibbs

Dutch to English, German to English
Wbtv 136
Services: editing, proofreading, translating
Specialities: business, finance, government, law
Qualifications: BA in German and Russian, Postgraduate diploma in Translating and Interpreting, Diploma - Chartered Institute of Bankers
Experience: I worked in commercial positions for banks in the UK and the Netherlands for 10 years. I have been a freelance translator specialising in financial and legal translations, editing and proofreading since 1996.
Oegstgeest
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Jolanda Wesenbeek

Dutch to English, English to Dutch
Wbtv 741
Services: editing, interpreting, translating
Specialities: agriculture and fisheries, arts and culture, business, communications and media, law
Qualifications: English Translation MA of Leiden University, English Interpretation B. Comn., SIGV Court Interpreter & Court Translator in Criminal Cases, Conference Interpretation Postgraduate at Ghent University (A Dutch, B English, C German and Spanish)
Experience: Since 2007.
WOUWSE PLANTAGE
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John Edmund Hynd

Dutch to English
Wbtv 1159
Services: copywriting, editing, indexing, interpreting, language teaching, journalism, proofreading, training, translating, subtitling
Specialities: agriculture and fisheries, arts and culture, business, communications and media, education, engineering and technology, finance, government, health and medicine, information technology, law, literary, natural sciences, social sciences, sports and recreation
Qualifications: BSc., BPhil., Mag. Theol.
Experience: 15 years of translation and interpreting, 10 years of teaching and 5 years of editing.
Eindhoven
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Maria Sherwood Smith

Dutch to English, English to Dutch
Wbtv 1825
Services: editing, language teaching, translating
Specialities: arts and culture, social sciences
Qualifications: D.Phil. (Oxon.) Medieval and Modern Languages; B.A. (Dubl.) Modern Languages; SIGV
Experience: Translation and language editing since 1996
Leiden
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Claire Koers

Dutch to English
Wbtv 5031
Services: editing, translating
Specialities: agriculture and fisheries, education, law, sports and recreation
Qualifications: Bachelor of Communication
Zwolle
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Justine Stoop

English to Dutch, German to Dutch, Dutch to German, Dutch to English
Wbtv 2204
Services: interpreting, translating
Specialities: business, government, health and medicine, law
Qualifications: Sworn translator for Dutch, English, German
Experience: Translator since 1989
Interpreter since 2008
The Hague
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Liz van Gerrevink-Genee

Dutch to English, English to Dutch
Wbtv 528
Services: editing, proofreading, translating
Specialities: business, engineering and technology, finance, law
Experience: More than 25 years' experience.
Sworn translator since 2007. Extended registration at Bureaubtv until January 2029. Wbtv no. 528.
My specialities are: legal & financial, architecture and building industry, technical.
CAT tool: SDL Trados Studio 2022.
Warmond
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Nicole van den Wittenboer

Wbtv 0
Services: editing, language teaching, proofreading, training, transcription, translating
Specialities: business, communications and media, education, engineering and technology, finance, information technology, law, natural sciences, social sciences, sports and recreation
Qualifications: - Post-Graduate Diploma in Translating (French-English-French, German-English) from the University of Salford (1997), UK; Degree in Commercial French and Teaching French as a Foreign Language from Paris-Sorbonne, France (1992); Propedeuse in Spanish Language and Cultural Studies from University of Nijmegen (1986)
Experience: Set up my own language services business in 1994
- Professional Freelance Translator between Dutch and English
- Language Trainer in French and Dutch for business and GCSE and A-Level (secondary school qualifications in the UK)
- Interpreting between Dutch and English for business as well as in courts and prisons in the UK
- Provided work placements to under-graduate students from the Vertaalacademie in Maastricht as well as MA students from the University of Salford for many years between 2001 and 2009
Hawarden
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Paul Melkert

Dutch to English, English to Dutch
Wbtv 2269
Services: proofreading, translating
Specialities: business, education, government, law
Hilversum
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Liesbeth Wallien

German to English, Dutch to English, English to Dutch
Wbtv 206
Services: translating
Specialities: law
Qualifications: Dolmetscherschule Zürich
Experience: After ten years as an in-house translator I went freelance in 1995. Most of my work is legal, with a sprinkling of financial and commercial translations.
Zutphen
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Christy de Back

Dutch to English, English to Dutch
Wbtv 403
Services: interpreting, translating
Specialities: arts and culture, business, communications and media, education, social sciences
Qualifications: MA in English Language and Literature, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Experience: I have more than 20 years of experience as a freelance translator, conference interpreter and language trainer working for a wide range of clients including Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Oxfam Novib, McDonald's, Rotterdam Festivals, Teylers Museum in Haarlem, Feyenoord football club, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and NWO in The Hague.
ROTTERDAM
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Patrice Pinguet

English to French, Dutch to French
Wbtv 2761
Services: language teaching, journalism, training, translating
Specialities: arts and culture, business, communications and media, education, government, health and medicine, law, literary, natural sciences, social sciences, sports and recreation
Qualifications: IoLET, Diploma in Translation, Chartered Institute of Linguists, London.
Experience: >25 years of experience as part of an in-house translation department and as a free-lance translator with clients (direct clients and agencies) in The Netherlands and abroad
Amsterdam
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Maite Johanna Francois

Dutch to English, English to Dutch
Wbtv 3915
Services: copywriting, editing, proofreading, translating
Qualifications: Engelse Taal en Cultuur aan de VU te Amsterdam
Experience: 15 years as translator/proofreader/traffic manager at UvA Talen B.V. in Amsterdam
1 year as translator/proofreader at Wilkens C.S. in Leiden
some freelance experience as a translator
Woerden
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Anita van Adelsbergen

Dutch to English, English to Dutch
Wbtv 4320
Services: copywriting, editing, interpreting, language teaching, journalism, proofreading, training, translating
Specialities: agriculture and fisheries, arts and culture, business, communications and media, health and medicine, law, literary, sports and recreation
Qualifications: MA, MCIL, CL, Chartered Linguist
Experience: Experienced multilingual journalist, voice over, translator, interpreter. Native speaker Dutch, English, German. Fluent in Italian and French. Specialisations: Equine, Canine, (Veterinary) Medicine, Sports, Judo, Ayurveda and general. Chartered Linguist and Full member of Chartered Institute of Linguists.
Conference speaker and chair.
Apeldoorn
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