Chris Durban is a freelance translator (French to English) based in Paris, where she specializes in publication-level texts for demanding clients—the shareholders, customers, and partners of a range of French corporations and institutions. She translates every day and enjoys it immensely.

She grew up in northern New York State, and studied modern languages for a year in Montreal before moving to France where she shifted to languages and business studies at the Université de Paris.

After several years as an in-house Fr to En translator at a Paris bank, she went freelance. Four decades on, her client base includes large corporations and SMEs in France and other countries, with a focus on high-profile, high-visibility and high-risk situations in business strategy, investor relations and financial communications. Chris is editor and co-author of The Prosperous Translator, a book of practical and business advice for translators, and in 2014 contributed to 101 Things a Translator Needs to Know, published by WLF.

Chris is a member of and a fellow of ITI (UK). A past president of SFT, she was awarded the ATA’s Gode Medal in 2001, ITI's John Sykes Memorial Prize in 2018, and SFT's Caravelle Florence Herbulot in 2020—all for contributions to the profession. She is co-founder and co-organizer of both SFT’s Université d’été de la traduction financière (UETF) and of “Translate in…” training events focusing on writing skills for translators.

chris.durban@gmail.com

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