Speaker

Alasdair Morgan

Alasdair Morgan is a Japanese translator-reviser in the Asian Languages Section of the Patent Cooperation Treaty Translation Service at The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He spent several years teaching English in Niigata starting in 1992, where his passion for the Japanese language was ignited. After intensively studying Japanese there for several years in his spare time, he returned home to Vancouver and began working as a freelance translator in 1999, focusing primarily on translating for the automotive industry. Upon returning to Japan in 2002, he began specializing in pharmaceutical and biomedical translation. In 2014, Alasdair moved with his family to Geneva, Switzerland to work in-house at WIPO.