Session Host

Jeannette Stewart

Jeannette Stewart is a strategic globalization leader and has worked with mainstream brands helping them achieve global growth, business revitalization and transformation. She founded Translation Commons, a nonprofit community of language professionals working on Digital Inclusion and partnering with UNESCO’s International Decade of Indigenous Languages to champion the preservation and use of indigenous languages globally by creating Keyboards, events and resources for communities whose scripts are not digitized.

Jeannette has been invited and appointed to a UNESCO (12 member) Expert Committee to oversee the creation and update of the World Atlas of Languages, an online UNESCO platform that reflects the dynamism and depths of the global linguistic diversity. It provides accurate, reliable, up-to-date and robust data on the world’s languages.

She is the former CEO of CommuniCare, a life-science translation company with offices in London, Paris, Athens, Budapest and Los Angeles. Jeannette has been involved in high-profile projects such as the Genome Project and prototyping the online Unified Submission Process for the European Medicine Agency. Jeannette has founded, served on the board of directors, moderated and volunteered in various educational and health charities.

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