At InOtherWords, we provide a comprehensive suite of services designed to ensure your international engagements are seamless and successful. Whether you’re hosting a one-time conference with Chinese delegates, embarking on a business trip to China, or establishing long-term partnerships in East Asia, our expertise is here to support you. Additionally, we offer in-depth insights into Chinese politics and international relations, with a particular emphasis on security.
Leverage our extensive personal, academic, and professional experience for your conferences, meetings, partnerships, or publications, and navigate the complexities of intercultural communication with confidence.
SINCE 2014
Conference Interpreter and Consultant
Clients include German, UK, US and Taiwanese government institutions and ministries; city governments; International Organisations; European and US fintech, hospitality, pharmaceutical and technology businesses; German Mittelstand businesses and Fortune500s.
APRIL TO JUNE 2024
Visiting Fellow at CERI
Supervised by Prof Thierry Balsacq
SCIENCES PO, PARIS
FRANCE
FEBRUARY TO MARCH 2024
Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political Science
Supervised by Prof Maxi Schoeman
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA
SOUTH AFRICA
APRIL & NOVEMBER 2023
Visiting Scholar at the Department of Political Science at SSES
Supervised by Prof Abraham K. Nyuon
UNIVERSITY OF JUBA
SOUTH SUDAN
MAY 2015 TO APRIL 2023
Lecturer on the MA in Conference Interpreting (German-English)
(part-time, permanent staff member)
UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG
GERMANY
SEPTEMBER 2021 TO APRIL 2023
Graduate Teaching Assistant
During the 2021-22 session, I had the pleasure of teaching IR101 (Contemporary Issues in International Relations). During the 2021/22 & 2022/23 academic years, I have also taught POL 147A (Theory and Practice of International Relations – West European Politics), a course taught to exchange students from the University of California, Davis, and IDEASIR3 (Global Politics in the 21st Century) to students of Universidad Europea de Madrid.
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS (LSE) / UC Davis / UEM (Madrid)
UK / US / Spain
Education
Felix’s academic background in Anthropology/Sociology and area studies coupled with practical OSINT and SAFA training has served as a solid foundation to build on in his work as an empathic listener and communicator, interpreter, and consultant who flexibly adapts to any audience. His practical, hands-on experience both as an interpreter in high politics and his fieldwork-driven academic work have informed one another: His understanding of international relations and diplomacy alongside his profound familiarity with a range of cultures and languages has provided him with invaluable, unique insight for his research, while his research, in turn, has provided him with additional approaches few others have at their disposal.
2020 TO 2024 (EXPECTED)
PhD in International Relations
In my PhD, I explore Chinese security policy vis-Ã -vis South Sudan, and its implications for the world and security policy more broadly. I also work on a wider range of developments in Taiwanese politics and international relations.
Dissertation (provisional title): Sima Zhao’s Intentions? Construction and Perception of the Protection and Securitisation of Chinese Interests, Assets, Citizens and Reputation in South Sudan.
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS & POLITICAL SCIENCE (LSE)
UK
2017 TO 2018
Master of Science in International Relations (Distinction)
Particular regional focus on China’s policies vis-Ã -vis the Global South (esp. Latin America) and special interest in Sino-US relations and the politics of peacebuilding and peacekeeping.
Dissertation: Will The Dragon Bring Peace? Liberal Peacekeeping, ‘Developmental Peace’ and Chinese UN-led and bilateral peacekeeping in (South) Sudan.
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS & POLITICAL SCIENCE (LSE)
UK
2013 TO 2014Â
PGDip in Conference Interpreting
English, German, Chinese
Courses taken include consecutive and simultaneous interpreting; specialised translation (business, technical & administrative); international politics and organisations.
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
UK
2012 TO 2013
Master of Arts in Social Anthropology (Distinction)
Diasporas and migration; Globalized cultures; citizenship and national identity; Vietnamese Language and Literature.
Dissertation: We Are Here – Vietnamese Boat Refugees, First-Generation Taiwanese and the Politics of Identity, Belonging and Otherness in Taiwan.
SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
UK
2009 TO 2012Â
Bachelor of Arts in Southeast Asian Studies and Sinology (First Class)
Indonesian/Malay; Chinese Languages (Hokkien and Cantonese); Southeast Asian history and cultures; macroeconomics, international trade & finance; gender in Southeast Asia.
Completed 4-year degree in three years’ time, graduating with a First Class Honours.
SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
UK
2008 TO 2009
Auditing Student
Comparative Studies of Legal Systems, International Law, Human Rights Law
CHINA UNIVERSITY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW ä¸åœ‹æ”¿æ³•å¤§å¸
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
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