Profession: 2021-present English teacher and tutor (Diverse companies)
English Language Instruction
Tutoring and teaching online to students in South Korea/Asia: 15-20 hours per week, grammar, conversation, instruction. Over 500 students total.
1984-present Teacher, tutor, exam preparation
Teaching, English Language Instruction
Since 1984, I've worked as a teaching assistant at University, I've tutored (English, Economics, Sociology, Math, Physics, History) and taught (English, Economics, Sociology, Math, Physics, History) students ages 18-55. Over 500 students total.
2017-2022 UN Human Rights Council NGO Representative
Government, Non-profit
For five years, I represented a Bangladesh-based development-related NGO at the UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland
2004-present Executive Director, NGO
Government
I founded an association to help developing countries measure their trade statistics better.
1996-2003 United Nations and WTO, Economist
Government
I was an Economic Affairs Officer in the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland
1994-1996 Financial Analyst, Reuters
Finance and Banking
For two years I worked as a Financial Analyst in Geneva, Switzerland at Reuters European Headquarters
1991-1993 Graduate Student
Teaching
I studied for my master degree at the Norwegian School of Economics, which is a sister-school to the London School of Economics, UC Berkeley and Cornell.
1991, New Product Engineer, Hewlett Packard, Gmbh (Germany)
Engineering
In my first post in Europe I worked on an assignment as a New Product Engineer in Global Manufacturing.
1989-1991, New Product Engineer, Wavefront Inc. now owned by Autodesk, Inc.
Engineering
In my first job in California, I worked as a New Product Engineer and Customer Engineer at a company (Wavefront) now owned by Autodesk, Inc.
2023-present Cambly English Teacher
English Language Instruction, Teaching, Training and Development
Since 2023, I've been a tutor at Cambly, working with students from all over the world, principally from the BRICS and Global South (China, Brazil, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE) also Japan & France.
Special focus: Advance Business English, Essays, IELTS
Interests: I am serious about my work, but I enjoy getting to know new people, and learning about their lives and how they think. I used-to work in the United Nations in Geneva, and I am a native of the Silicon Valley, so my background is multi-cultural. I have several university degrees and I've been teaching for over 20 years, including tutoring English and giving English conversation classes: in the past two years I've had over 500 students, mostly in Asia. CAMBLY SPECIALIZATION TOPICS INCLUDE: travel, interview, engineer, finance, writing, marketing, "information technology", history, movie, IELTS preparation, TOEFL preparation
Education: Master, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway
Finance and Banking, Law, Government, Shipping and Transportation
Master, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration - -
B.S. in Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Technology, Internet, Research, Entrepreneurship
Intensive four-year curriculum of mathematics, computer science engineering (algorithms,operating systems, numerical analysis)
B.A. in Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Research, Writing and Journalism, Non-profit
I was a teaching assistant in the Sociology honors program for research on women and mathematics. Audited all upper division Psychology courses.Worked as journalist on UCSB Daily Nexus Newspaper. Member of the UCSB Commission on the Status of Women
Spoken Languages: английский (Native), французский (Conversational), норвежский (Fluent), датский (Basic)
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