Career

From 1983-2001 Geoffrey Kingscott was managing director of Praetorius Limited, which had offices in Nottingham and Leeds in the UK, and a fully-owned US subsidiary company, Praetorius North America Inc., with its office in Chicago. Praetorius Limited was sold to Logos SpA in 2001.

A Fellow of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI), Geoffrey Kingscott chaired its inaugural meeting in April 1986, and its first conference in 1987. He was chairman of its East Midlands Group 1989-1995, and chairman of its Professional Standards Committee 2004-2007.

He has been an external examiner for the master's and postgraduate diploma translating course at Bradford University 1991-1995 and 1998-1999, and for the technical writing and terminography module at Surrey University 2003-2006.

Geoffrey Kingscott has spoken at conferences on translation processes and techniques on many occasions and in many countries. He has also contributed articles to a number of publications. For a complete listing of these write to him at geoffrey.kingscott@btopenworld.com.