A UN staff interpreter for more than twenty years, Lynn Visson holds a Harvard Ph.D. and taught Russian language and literature at Columbia University. She now freelances at the UN, where she has conducted interpreter training programs. She has taught interpretation at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Columbia University, Moscow University, the Marshall Center in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and at the University of Mainz in Germersheim. Dr. Visson's many publications on Russian language and culture include several books and audio-courses on Russian-English simultaneous interpretation. She is a consulting editor at Hippocrene Books and a member of the editorial boards of SlavFile, the publi-cation of the ATA's Slavic Division, and the Moscow translation and interpretation journal Mosty.