About Mona Baker
Mona Baker (née Mona El Hilali; Arabic منى الهلالي; born September 29, 1953) is former professor of Translation Studies and founder of the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies of the University of Manchester in England. == Career == Baker studied at the American University in Cairo, where she gained a BA in English and Comparative Literature. Afterwards she studied applied linguistics at the University of Birmingham, obtaining an MA in 1987. In 1995 she moved to the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology where she became a professor in 2001. She is currently Affiliate Professor of the Sustainable Health Unit at the University of Oslo, Norway, and Honorary Dean of the Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation at Beijing Foreign Studies University. She is the founder of St. Jerome Publishing where she was editorial director until 2014 when Routledge bought the St. Jerome catalogue. She also founded the international journal The Translator. Since 2009 she has been an honorary member of IAPTI. In the framework of this association she delivered a speech on "Ethics in the Translation/Interpreting Curriculum" She is also a founding member and former co-Vice-president of the International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies.
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