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LANGUAGES AND COMPUTER SKILLS:
* Bilingual French/ English (mother tongues: English parents but grew up in France and studied in the UK)
* Fluent Spanish gained from study and extensive travel in South America after university (immersion programme).
* Rusty Italian.
* Word for Windows, the Internet, Excel, Power Point, PageMaker, Dreamweaver, FrontPage, and SPSS.
EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS:
1999 - 2000 MSc in Environmental Technology, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London, UK
1996 –1999 BSc (Honours Degree) Biological Sciences, including a business studies module (high 2.1), University of Warwick, England,
1995 –1999 Scientific Baccalauréat, Lycée Claude Fauriel de St-Etienne, France
December 1995 Cambridge Proficiency (B), IEL St-Etienne, France
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Oct 2001- Nov 2002 ECOTEC RESEARCH AND CONSULTING
Consultant/ Research manager in the Social Policy Group based in London. Gained broad experiences of research and consultancy and worked on a wide range of European, national, regional and local projects.
* Social Policy group, London/Birmingham:
- Actively involved in programme evaluations in particular orientated towards employment, skills and training. Managed the fieldwork, data collection and interviews, and took part in the analysis and report writing.
- Responsible for writing proposals and expressions of interest, and creating track records.
* Planning and Economics group, London:
- Led research as the UK expert for the evaluation of the European Year of Languages and gained extensive knowledge of European work through the investigation and evaluation of European initiatives.
- Coordinator for the Wales Spatial Plan workshops.
* Innovation Policy Support Group, Brussels:
- Managed the updating of the Proacte and Saferinternet websites through collecting information, writing and publishing articles.
- Led the work on the Proacte fact sheets, translating technical data into easy to read project factsheets for dissemination, also corresponding with the project co-ordinators and the client.
August 2001 NEW JERSEY PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP, Princeton, USA
Fundraiser for the New Jersey Public Interest Research group and the Sierra Club.
March - June 2001 IPSEN INTERNATIONAL LTD. London
French bilingual receptionist, in a busy environment, responsible for the initial interface for company and client, switchboard management, organising and booking employees' business travel, and general administration tasks.
May - Sept 2000 IC CONSULTANTS, London
Freelance consultant, part of an international team, for an European Commission pollutant project on the sources of pollution to urban wastewater. Responsible for:
- Leading research on these issues in France, collecting and analysing the data, and discussing the problem with experts.
- Report writing and presenting recommendations to the team, editing the European chapters presented to the EC.
OTHER SKILLS AND INTERESTS:
Travel: Poland, South, Central, and North America, Egypt, Australia, Europe.
Sport: Swimming, Skiing (coordinator at a holiday camp), Hiking.
Culture: reading, go to the theatre and cinema regularly and have an active social life.
References will be provided on request.
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