Cécile Gautier graduated from the University of Lille (France) in 2008 and worked as a localisation project manager in Madrid before embarking on a freelance translation career in March 2009. Based first in Lille and, later, Paris, Cécile specialised in medicine and international development, working from English and Spanish to French, before moving east in February 2016 to join the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM)/Council of Europe in Strasbourg as a scientific translator. A former member of the SFT, ITI and ASETRAD, Cécile enjoys networking and talking about what she does and loves.