Chartered Institute
of Linguists
Our Honorary President and Vice-Presidents are honorary officers of CIOL, nominated by Council and elected by the membership at the AGM. The President and Vice-Presidents draw on their expertise and experience in various parts of the languages sector to act in an advisory capacity to Council and represent CIOL externally. They are entitled to attend meetings of Council as non-voting observers.
| Postnominals | Role | Bio |
|---|---|---|
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Mr Richard HARDIE HonFCIL |
Honorary President |
Richard Hardie read History and French at Lincoln College, Oxford, and spent a year as a British Council lycée assistant in Dijon. He also has a working knowledge of Italian and some German. Richard qualified as a chartered accountant and, in 1977, joined the UBS Group, a global financial services firm and one of the world's largest financial asset managers. He was Non-Executive Chair of UBS Ltd from 2010–15. He chairs the UBS UK Donor-Advised Foundation and the UBS UK Pension Scheme. Richard gave the CIOL Threlford Lecture in September 2011 on ‘Business, Languages and the State’. He also gave the opening address in February 2011 at the launch of Speak to the Future: The Campaign for Languages, which he now chairs. He chaired the British Academy-funded Born Global project, an in-depth assessment of the appetite for language skills in the modern workplace, and of the implications for young people and for the economy of supply failing to meet demand. |
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Baroness Jean COUSSINS HonFCIL |
Vice-President |
Baroness Jean Coussins was appointed as a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords in 2007. She co-chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages. She is also vice chair of the APPG on the United Nations and takes an active interest in Latin America, human rights and corporate responsibility, as well as a range of issues connected with languages. She is a Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Linguists. |
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Prof David CRYSTAL OBE FCST FRSA HonFCIL |
Vice-President |
David Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. He has written or edited over 100 books and published numerous articles for scholarly, professional, and general readerships, in fields ranging from forensic linguistics and ELT to the liturgy and Shakespeare. His books include the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Words, Words, Words and The Fight for English. |
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Susanna DENT MBE HonFCIL |
Vice-President |
Susie Dent is a writer and broadcaster on language. She recently celebrated 30 years as a co-presenter and the resident word expert on C4's Countdown, and also appears on the show's comedy sister 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown. Susie comments regularly on TV and radio on words in the news. She has contributed to discussions on Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Word of Mouth, Saturday Live, More or Less, Today, and on Radio 5 Live's Breakfast and Drive programmes. She has made guest appearances on many TV programmes including BBC Breakfast, Newsnight, This Morning, Test the Nation, Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, Not Going Out, and The One Show. |
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Mrs Judith Gabler-Schoessow HonFCIL CertTrans FCIL |
Vice-President |
Judith is a business leader, linguist and mentor. She has studied in the UK, France and Germany and holds language qualifications in French and German. Early in her career, Judith relocated from the North of England to Frankfurt and now holds British-German citizenship. |
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Prof Jocelyn Wyburd BA(Hons) MA(Cantab) PGCE MA |
Vice-President |
Jocelyn Wyburd is a graduate of Italian and French from the University of Cambridge. Her international and multilingual career has variously spanned the public, private and third sectors. |
