Merit-Ene Ilja

Merit-Ene Ilja is acting Deputy Director General and a Translation Director in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation. From 2011 to April 2013, she was head of unit in DG Translation, responsible for professional and organisational development issues. She has been involved in translation management since 1995, having been in charge of translating the EU’s acquis into Estonian before her country’s accession to the EU. She managed the Estonian and Hungarian language units in the Council of the EU from 2004 to 2008 and the Estonian, Romanian and Slovenian language departments of DG Translation from 2008 to 2011. She has an academic background and worked as a lecturer at the University of Tartu from 1984 to 1995.