Mathieu Guidere is a full professor at the University of Paris and research director at the French National Institute of Health (INSERM). A scholar of Linguistics as it applies to Translation Studies, he has held other professorships at prestigious institutions including the School of Translation and Interpretation (ETI) at the University of Geneva, Switzerland (2007 to 2011).[1] Dr. Guidere is the founder of the Swiss NGO Multilingual International Mediators (MIM, Switzerland), and has been awarded King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Award for Translation (Eighth Session) due to his individual efforts in translating from Arabic.