Ludmila STERN is Professor of Interpreting at UNSW Sydney and the founder of the Master of Interpreting and Translation for which she received a Dean’s and a Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching. An interpreter and translator certified by the National Accreditation Authority for Interpreting and Translation (NAATI), she was a Board Director of NAATI (2010-2016) and Chair of its Advisory committee (2017-2020). She is a member of the Standing Committee for Legal Translation of the International Translators’ Federation (FIT).

Her research on interpreting in international and domestic courts includes the Australian Research Council research project Judicial Officers working with interpreters: Implications for access to justice where she is Lead Investigator and From the Nuremberg Trials to the International Criminal Court. Interpreting in War Crimes Prosecutions. She is the author of publications on court interpreting and of the monograph Stern L, 2007, Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 1920-1940, Routledge, Taylor Francis Group, United Kingdom.

As a researcher and educator of interpreters and interpreter users, Ludmila has been a consultant and an invited speaker in Australian legal and judiciary bodies (Judicial Commission of NSW, Bar Association of NSW, National Judicial College of Australia, Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration) and overseas (ICTY, ICC, Special Tribunal for Lebanon).