Our Team
Interpreters, Consutant Interpreters and Translators
KoinÓS MEMBERS
At our cooperative, we all met by interpreting. The strength of our team comes from valuing and recognising each of our professional qualities, and precisely this is what sparked our desire to pool our knowledge and effort and establish a company that would focus on putting quality and passion first. We found the perfect setup, and establishing a cooperative came naturally. Working as a team, we can guarantee the highest standards of quality, while managing each of our projects with dedicated commitment and professionality, respecting confidentiality.
We are qualified translators and consultant interpreters.
Get in touch and we will gladly help you and your organisation bring your international meeting to life with a quote tailored to your actual needs
Laia Sanmartí
Catalan, Spanish, English, French
Degree in Translation and Interpreting from the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona).
Certified translator for Catalan an English by the Catalan Government.
Cambridge Conference Interpretation Course.
Freelance translator and interpreter since 1998 working in the institutional, social and corporate sectors.
International in-person and online meetings, conferences, press conferences and award ceremonies, bilateral meetings, presentations, interviews, trainings and seminars.
Fields of specialisation: Cooperation, Human Rights, climate change, international law, social and solidarity economy, debt, health and farmacy, arts, mindfulness, philosophy and spirituality, therapy.
Núria Vallano
Catalan, Spanish, French, Italian, English
Degree in Translation and Interpreting from the Universitat Autònoma (Barcelona)
Official interpreter at the Spanish Senate.
Certified French & Spanish interpreter by the Catalan Government
Conference Interpreter
Former professor for the Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Translation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Collaborator at BABELS, having participated in the following FSMED: Paris, Athens, London, Barcelona and several preparatory meetings in Istanbul
Liaison interpreter at the 20th ISU World Congress held in Busan, South Korea
Liaison interpreter at the 16th International Stereoscopic Union Congress held in Boise (USA)
Simultaneous and liaison interpreter for President Montilla at a meeting with the presidents of the autonomous regions of Sicily, Sardinia and Catalonia, held in Sardinia (Italy)
Liaison interpreter at the Catalan Parliament for Mr. Ricardo Nencini, President of the Regional Council of Tuscany.
David Morris
Catalan, Spanish, English, French
Degree in Translation and Interpreting from the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona)
European Masters’ in Conference Interpretation from the University of Westminster (London)
Certified translator for English & Catalan by the Catalan Government
Freelance interpreter and translator since 2008 working in the institutional, corporate and cooperative sectors, international and bilateral meetings, European Works Councils, workshops, interviews, trainings and seminars, held in person and online.
Fields of specialization: Human rights, education, international law, food and agriculture, climate change, sustainable mobility, politics, telecommunications, market research, energy sector and cooperation.
Cathy Arnaud
French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Catalan
Masters’ Degree in Foreign Languages Applied to Trade & Business from the Université Toulouse 2, France
Freelance interpreter and translator since 2005
Recruited interpretation teams for international events with up to 15 languages for Koinós and Babels.
I had the privilege to interpret for Adolfo Aristarain, Arundhati Roy, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Evo Morales, King Felipe VI of Spain, Gisèle Halimi, Guillermo del Toro, José Antonio Martin Pallin, Josep Borrell, Joseph Stiglitz, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Mustafa Barghouti, Nawal El Saadawi, Pedro Sánchez, Stefan Hessel, Susan Georges, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Vandana Shiva and Walden Bello.
An international network of
excellent interpreters and translators
There are many more of us! When we have a considerable workload and, depending on the language combinations our clients need or the topic, we call on our network of trusted and experienced colleagues to offer you the best interpreters for your project. Our collaborators work in the same conditions as the members of our cooperative.
We choose the best qualified and experienced translators and interpreters from Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Our excellent translation and interpreting professionals specialise in a broad range of fields such as Economics, Law, Art, Philology, Science, and many others, contributing their expert knowledge to make Koinós a great international and multidisciplinary organisation. We are a small cooperative with a great team capable of covering big events in a broad variety of subjects and fields.
Thanks to this teamwork we can translate and interpret in many languages such as: Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Basque, Galician, Greek, Turkish, Ukrainian, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, Danish, Serbian, Croatian, Polish, Rumanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Chinese, Bahasa-Indonesian, Tamazight…
