Christian Galinski
Director, ISO/TC 37 Secretary

Director since 1986, Japanese and Chinese and communication studies at the University of Bonn.He spent several years in Japan.As a registered court translator for Japanese, he set up a business promotion and language service company, focussing its activities on East Asia. After joining Infoterm in 1979, he had weathered over the years the rising and falling tides of trends in terminology, enjoying much success, while suffering his share of disappointments as well.He remains an indefatigable promoter of international co-operation in terminology.

Dorothée Eichfelder
Organisation of the statutory Infoterm meetings, database management,
translation and revision, membership administration.

For over 30 years, Dorothée Eichfelder fought for the cause of terminology in three specialized agencies of the United Nations, i.e. IAEA, UNIDO and UNESCO, where she first worked as a translator, subsequently reorganized and ran the respective terminology, documentation and reference services, finally developed and established in two instances a terminology and reference database in collaboration with a computer expert. She is still going strong, giving Infoterm a helping hand in all matters relating to their members and governing bodies.

Anja Drame
Projects, Communication, ISO/TC 37 Secretariat

Freelance Infoterm staff since August 2001.  Her working tasks included project management, the organization of communication and PR activities, the preparation, planning and evaluation of events, conferences and workshops (including events co-organized by TermNet).  Since 2004 she assists in the work of ISO/TC 37 secretariat and is also actively involved in international standardization as member of the ON. Educational background in health care, studies at the University of Leipzig: Language for Special Purposes (LSP), German as a Foreign Language and African Studies and Stellenbosch, South Africa, focussing on terminology and democracy (M.A. thesis on Terminology in the language of isiXhosa). Ph.D. candidate in socioterminology since 2006. Mobile phone: +49 171-4352 475

Alexandra Kotai-Bontus
Office Management and Project Assistant

Alexandra joined Infoterm 2005 and is responsible for the Office Management. Born 1966 in Wiener Neustadt (Lower Austria), educated to a druggist, gathered professional experiences as Product Manager in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry (Neuber) and as Head of Logistics and Production Planning Department at Pierre Lang (jewellery production). After founding a family, she worked part-time as a Project Assistant at a social oriented non-profit organization

Fabienne Nawrat
Projects

Fabienne Nawrat, born in Ethiopia, father Belgian, mother Armenian. No wonder she grew up with six languages. Studied mathematics, experiences in insurance and international management. Since July 2003: representative of TermNet's Branch Office at the University for Applied Sciences in Cologne. Cellphone: +49 1715723750

Eva Lindquist
Projects

Born in 1962 in New York, educated in Europe (Stockholm, Paris and Vienna), University studies (Arabic Studies/Philology and International Trade), Diploma in Bibliography and Classification. Background in Banking, International Trade and cross-border Executive Search (H. Neumann International and Korn/Ferry International) and own Independent Research firm.

Blanca Nájera
Projects

Born in Spain in 1980, Blanca Nájera holds a university degree in translation and interpreting gained from the University Alfonso X, el Sabio in Madrid. Blanca is a qualified and highly skilled freelance translator, with strong experience in the profession after working as a project manager and in-house linguist with several translation agencies across both Spain and Germany. Currently, Blanca is involved in the organisation of workshops on terminology training around the world. She has 4 years experience in different terminology related projects. Her key fields of interest are terminology databases and tools, the implementation of new terminology strategies in business and networking. After collaborating in several projects Blanca joined the Infoterm team in 2006 as coordinator for Infoterm periodicals, website administrator and project manager.