The State of the Public Sector Language Services

Overview

Our guest speaker, Mike Orlov, Executive Director and Registrar of the National Register of Public Service Interpreters (NRPSI)

Mike will explore the state of public sector language services, where we have come from, where we are today and explore projections for the future.

Speaker:

Before joining NRPSI in May 2019, Mike was a partner in a boutique consulting firm, ‘SteppingStone Global’ between 2014 and 2018, which was based in Bahrain and worked across the GCC states. Prior to this, Mike spent 35 years publishing magazines at Haymarket, Turret and Reed Elsevier, working in newspapers and on digital channels in the UK and the GCC, having been a senior manager at The Mail on Sunday, director at Northern and Shell and on the board of the London Evening Standard

Launching media brands in Dubai for ENG, Mike was also Chief Performance Officer for News Group International, before taking the Chief Executive role at Primedia International, with offices across the GCC, headquartered in Bahrain. Mike has completed an executive MBA, achieving a Distinction

Consultant, facilitator, mentor, business coach, trainer, public speaker as well being a published business writer, Mike is passionate about the role of professional public service interpreting and translating and is committed to lobbying and advocating for protection of the public, upholding standards as well as greater recognition, awareness and appreciation of language-service professionals serving the public and the public-sector in the UK.

For more information about Mike please see:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/orlovmike/

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