Personal Skills

Language skills

  • English and German– bilingual

  • French: fluent

  • Spanish: conversational 

  • Italian: basic

General interests

  • Tennis; hiking; ebiking; gardening

  • Piano (classical) Grade 8/ Licenciate

  • Prison photography (exhibitions in Hannover and Frankfurt prisons) Gefängniskulturen (prison cultures) Prison Photography by Ursula Smartt
    View photo gallery here

  • Volunteer (‘Gamesmaker') at the London Olympic Games (July – August 2012): interpreter and team leader in mixed media zone. Excel Centre, Docklands, London.

  • Governor at the Moorfields NHS Hospital Trust

  • Supporting charities: Vision Aid; Sight for Surrey; Moorfields Eye Charity.