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English translation: institutional/regulatory affairs

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21:35 Nov 3, 2010

German to English translations [PRO]
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German term or phrase: Bürokratie

As in "Leitung Recht und Bürokratie". This is someone's job title in a list of a company's senior management. Bureaucracy sounds very negative to me to be in a job title. I guess this lawyer deals with red tape and local officials etc. but that is just a guess. No further information is supplied. As always I look forward to your ideas, many thanks in advance.

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Local time: 17:48

English translation:institutional/regulatory affairs

Explanation:
I've never seen it used in a job title before, but since it goes with "Recht", I assume this is what it means - dealing with officialdom and ensuring legal compliance.

Selected response from:

philgoddard
Local time: 11:48

Grading comment

I went with "regulatory". Many thanks for your help.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided
3 +8	institutional/regulatory affairs	philgoddard
3	Head of Corporate Legal and Compliance	kmaincor
3	Administrative Structure	casper

Summary of reference entries provided

Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs

John Fenz

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

11 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +8

institutional/regulatory affairs

Explanation:
I've never seen it used in a job title before, but since it goes with "Recht", I assume this is what it means - dealing with officialdom and ensuring legal compliance.

philgoddard
Local time: 11:48
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16

Grading comment

I went with "regulatory". Many thanks for your help.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

John Fenz

14 mins

agree

Damian Harrison

18 mins

agree

Roland Nienerza: A good interpretation for a completely weird job title. // Exactly. That's what it rather looks like. - And Guido is wrong. "Odd" titles might occour. But this one cannot be a real title for a senior manager.

22 mins

-> It's good to have confirmation from a German native speaker that it's weird. Could it be a joke?

agree

Guido Schenkel: I second that confirmation. That being said, there are many (German) job titles that seem odd to us mere mortals. So, it really needn't be a joke.

51 mins

agree

AllegroTrans: sounds impressive but maybe simply "admin(istration)" is all this is

1 hr

agree

Gabriella Bertelmann: agree

3 hrs

agree

Thayenga

10 hrs

agree

hazmatgerman: especially with "regulatory", the charming modernism for red tape.

12 hrs

6 hrs confidence:

Administrative Structure

Explanation:
bureaucracy (byʊrŏk'rəsē),
The administrative structure of a large or complex organization: a midlevel manager in a corporate bureaucracy.
...
the administrative structure of any large organization, public or private.
http://www.answers.com/bureaucracy

casper
Native speaker of:

English

15 hrs confidence:

Head of Corporate Legal and Compliance

Explanation:
I found this to be a title for Peter Solmssen at Siemens. It seems to fit the criteria, but it also does not seem to be a job title anywhere but in Siemens. As a native English speaker, I do actually find this title to sound a bit awkward but since Siemens is using it and they are such a large international company, they may normalize this term.

kmaincor
Local time: 18:48
Native speaker of:

English

Reference comments

21 mins peer agreement (net): +2

Reference: Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs

Reference information:
Quite a few Google hits

Example sentence(s):

NYU Counsel Ada Meloy Named Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs at the American Council on Education
Jesse George promoted to director of legal and regulatory affairs

Reference: http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&TEMPLATE=...
Reference: http://tinyurl.com/2wpbkcf

John Fenz
Poland
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

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