Chris Durban

Chris Durban is a freelance translator (French to English) based in Paris, where she specialises in publication-level texts for a client portfolio that includes some of Europe’s top corporations as well as regulatory and regional development agencies. Most of her work is in high-profile, high-visibility and high-risk situations in business strategy, investor relations and financial/corporate communications. She translates almost every day, and enjoys it immensely. 
A longstanding member of the Société française des traducteurs (SFT – France's translators’ association) and a Fellow of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI) in the UK, Chris is also co-founder and co-organiser of SFT’s summer school for financial translators (UETF), as well as the ‘Translate in…’ series of seminars for translators keen to hone their writing skills, held over the years in upstate New York, Quebec, Chantilly, Cambridge and Charlevoix, with an online edition during Covid. 
Chris has written many articles about translation, targeting both peers and clients, and has given talks and workshops around the world. She is co-author of two books: The Prosperous Translator and 101 Things a Translator Needs to Know. A former board member and president of SFT, she also served on the board of the American Translators Association (ATA) in the USA.  
Awards for contributions to the profession include the SFT’s Caravelle Florence-Herbulot in 2020, the ITI’s John Sykes Memorial Prize in 2018, and the ATA’s Gode medal in 2001.