Board Members
Nataliia Pavliuk
Chairperson
Co-founder of the Ukrainian Association of Translators and Interpreters
UATI Chairperson since 2020
Translator and interpreter since 1996
PhD, visiting researcher and lecturer of the Centre for Translation, Interpreting and Localisation Studies of the University of Leeds, UK.
Chartered Linguist, member of the CIOL, UK
Member of the European Society of Translation Studies.
Nataliia is both a legal translator and a researcher of legal translation, has over 25 academic publications.
She hosts presentations, meetings, webinars and trainings for translators and interpreters, participates in conferences and forums. She has been a registered individual entrepreneur in Ukraine since 2008 and owns a company UA Translations Limited in the UK, and has corporate and individual clients in Ukraine, UK, USA, Austria, Canada, Germany and other countries. As an interpreter she worked with ambassadors and consuls of over 10 countries, in numerous international projects. She has been the author and trainer of Legal Translation Course and General Translation Course since 2018 operating as English Channel Translation Academy.
Oleksandr Ivanov
Deputy Chair
Co-founder of the Ukrainian Association of Translators and Interpreters
Oleksandr Ivanov has been translating and interpreting since 1994 for construction and consultancy companies and banks.
Oleksandr has been an ATA Certified Translator from English to Ukrainian since 2014.
He translates from English and German into Ukrainian and Russian, specializing in banking, construction, finance, accounting standards, general business, and technical documents.
Ivan Deineko
Deputy Chair
Co-founder of the Ukrainian Association of Translators and Interpreters
Translator since 2006. Working languages: Ukrainian, Russian, English, French.
Lecturer in English and Translation Studies, Department of Translators/Interpreters, Kyiv National Linguistic University, in 2010-2018.
Conference interpreter since 2011. Focus on the international humanitarian law, migration law, propaganda, family law, public administration, anti-corruption activities, education, psychology, energy, energy security, business.
Anna Kurashyna
Deputy Chair
Translator, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"
Full member of the Ukrainian Association of Translators since 2020.
Translator since 2016. Specialization - legal translation, court cases, documentation, economics, finance, research papers. Lecturer since 2009.
Svitlana Bregman
Conference interpreter
Over 20 years of interpreting experience, and within these years she has been practicing interpreting, training interpreters, self-developing, and contributing to the growth of the interpreting industry in Ukraine.
Co-initiator and co-author of the Interpreter Professional Code of Ethics, Best Practices of Interpreting.
Ivan Nevmetzhytskyi
Military interpreter, active duty officer - Lieutenant Colonel, Armed Forces of Ukraine, combat veteran
15-year experience of linguistic support from/into English, Ukrainian in such domains: military, security, law, as well as technical (vehicles, drilling, oil and gas), religion, philosophy, psychology.
Interpreted military-political leadership of Ukraine, including President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
Author of the Military Translation Bootcamp (Базовий вишкіл з військового перекладу (англійська мова)).
Worked on the PhD Thesis on "Theoretical Model of Linguistic Support in the Armed Forces of Ukraine". Author of numerous publications and scientific articles.
Uliana Filon
Translator since 2008 working mainly for international companies and projects
Since 2013 she has been supervising students’ translation internship in cooperation with Ukrainian universities (specialising in insurance and European integration). Individual entrepreneur since 2014.
Areas of specialism: law, in particular human rights, EU integration, including EU acquis and laws and regulations of Ukraine, contract law; insurance; banking.
Yelyzaveta Sukhanova
Translator and interpreter
Expert of media presence
Languages: Ukrainian-English-Italian-Russian
Conference interpreter specialising in business, education and humanitarian initiatives, working for international organisations and companies, and law firms. International projects manager for the support of Ukrainian refugees in the US and Europe.