Dr. Onyeka Ezeh, PHD

Onyeka, is an expert in language interpretation and translation with specialism in Russian, German and English Languages. Onyeka, currently leads and lectures on the Applied Linguistics/Russian language and literature/translation studies (Russian, German and English) course at the University of Waterloo. Previously, he has acted as a consultant translator and interpreter for the Nigerian embassy in Moscow and has lectured and worked as a researcher at universities in Nigeria and Russia.

Onyeka, heads up our client relations team working closely with subject matter consultants to ensure that clients are efficiently and effectively served in matters with Russian and German angle.  These include but not limited to acting as an interpreter at meetings, in courts and arbitral tribunals, overseeing document translations into and from clients’ official language, providing cultural context into clients’ matters etc.

He is often invited to speaking engagements on the role of languages and culture in achieving client satisfaction by businesses across West Africa, North America and Russia. He is a keen traveller, an avid reader and a football enthusiast.

PRACTICE AREAS

• Client Relations Multilingual
• Translation – Russian, German, English
• Interpretation – Russian, German, English

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD Language Interpretation and Translation   – Moscow State Linguistic University.
• MSc Language Interpretation and Translation – Moscow State Linguistic University
• Certificate in Fundamentals of University Language Teaching, Foreign Languages and Literatures, General – University of Waterloo, Canada.
• Certificate of Proficiency, Russian Language and Literature – Voronezh State University.

LANGUAGES

Russian – Fluent | German – Fluent | Igbo – Fluent | English – Fluent