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Member since Feb '08

Working languages:
Spanish to English
English to Spanish
English to Arabic
English to French
Italian to English

Alberto Balanza
Fast, competent and discreet service

Malaysia
Local time: 19:37 MYT (GMT+8)

Native in: Spanish Native in Spanish
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Alberto Balanza
Conference Interpreter
Based in Malaysia, able to travel

Languages

A: Spanish, English
B: Arabic, Italian, French, Malay

Academic Background in the field of languages

Spanish - mother tongue
English - B.A. (Hons) in Mass Communications, International Islamic University
Malaysia (English and Arabic as vehicle languages grad. 1994 )
Arabic - Diploma in Arabic Language and Literature by University of Jordan, Grad.
1990
French ( bilingual mother, self-taught)
Italian (self taught, Universiti Malaya Certificate )
Malay ( working knowledge for consecutive interpretation into any of the above.

Recent work:

Interpreter:

2009
31th June-1st July Venezuelan Trade Mission to Malaysia ( simult. Spa-Eng)
18th June Magistrate, Georgetown
16th June Magistrate Port Dickson,
17th-18 June Italian Business Delegation to Malaysia ( Simult, and consec. Ital-Eng)
5th June, Magistrate Court KL
4-6 May World Halal Forum (Simult. Spa-Eng)
13-14 April – High Court Sha Alam
26 March - Sworn Interpretation PoA- Spanish Embassy Kuala Lumpur
23-25 March Sessions Court Petaling Jaya, Malaysia ( Spa-Eng)
22-23 Feb USDA Experts Meeting - Singapore (Simult. Spa-Eng)
13-Feb. USDA Experts Meeting Kota Kinabalu-Malaysia (Simult. Spa-Eng)
4-Jan. Magistrate Court Shah Alam Spanish ( Spa-Eng)

2008
3-4 Dec Arabic Interpreter - 3rd Asian Ministerial Meeting on Disaster Risk Reduction- KL
23-24 Oct Trade Mission - Spanish Commercial Office KL
12-13-14 Sept French Interpreter for MFCCI, Kuala Lumpur
15th July Spanish Interpreter for CID, Malaysian Police, Sepang
26th-27th June Italian Intepreter for ICE Singapore
28th-30th May Spanish Interpreter for Netevents - Langkawi
19th-21st May Simult. Spanish Interpreter WCIT 2008 KLCC Kuala Lumpur
10 to 14th April Italian Interpreter SolEco Sla business visit to Malaysia
30th March Spanish Interpreter High Court Shah Alam
20th February. Arabic Interpreter in Magistrate Court, Kuala Lumpur
18th February Spanish interpreter Magistrate Court Kuala Lumpur
January 28th to 30th - Simultaneous Spanish interpreter for the MP delegation from Barcelona, Spain, during their working visit to Singapore
January 16th to 27th - Spanish interpreter for FYPIC S.A. ( Grupo Inditex ) during the set up of new outlet in Kuala Lumpur
January 7th to 9th. Spanish-English/Indonesian interpreter for Zero Design S.A. during their working visit to Jakarta, Indonesia

2007
December 17th 07 Arabic interpreter in Sessions Court, Sha Alam Malaysia
December 13th 07 Spanish interpreter High Court of Shah Alam, Malaysia
December 9th and 10th 07 - Simultaneous Spanish interpreter during the meeting of the International
Development Research Centre IRDC/CRDI ( 2 days ) in Kuala Lumpur.

Translator:

Legal Documentation for Skrine & Co. ( Spanish-English 4,000 words)
Legal Agreement ACCOR Group French-English. 16500 Words)
Legal contracts for PETRONAS (French- English, 12,000 words)
Legal contract for PEMEX (Spanish-English, 18,000 words)


Excerpts of past work as interpreter:

CONFINTEA VI ( Adult Literacy )- UNESCO , ESCAP Bld, UNO Bangkok, Thailand April 2004

FIBA Congress 2004 Sunway Lagoon, Selangor, Malaysia

FIFA Arbitration Body, Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia March 2005

H.E. Primer Minister of Malaysia, Tun Mahathir Mohammad, during the visit by Equatorial Guinea President, Putrayaja, Malaysia Feb 2002

ITTF (International Table Tennis Federation) Congress, Niko Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Jan 2001

Special price for NGO's and Non-Profit Organizations. Able to travel in S.E. Asia region and beyond

Translation:

Main fields are legal, economics & finance, medical / pharma, engineering & technical, educational and computing. Able to translate art incriptions, paintings & manuscripts as well. Regular services to Spanish Commercial Office in Kuala Lumpur, several Latinamerican diplomatic missions accredited in Malaysia, European Chamber of Commerce, French- Malaysian Chamber of Commerce, Instituto Cervantes Kuala Lumpur,COPCA Singapore, Federal Court of Malaysia, ITNM.

Hobbies include jungle trekking and rock climbing. Extensive reading about political economy, law, history, linguistics, health, science, art and almost any domain

























































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