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Skills Summary

  • Research and analysis: Collect, analyze and present raw information in a coherent form, both as text and presentation. Experience includes, but is not limited to research on domains related to security studies, international relations, law and economics, at the Centre for Security Analysis as Research Intern.
  • Event management: Provide logistic support (venue, accommodation, transport, sponsorships etc.) to seminars, conferences and inter-collegiate events. Experience in event management at college level in organizing inter-collegiate cultural events and seminars and at the Centre for Security Analysis in organizing international seminars and conferences.
  • Publishing: Proof-read and copyedit articles, essays and papers presented by participants at seminars for publication. Liaison with printers and publishing houses to ensure quality output. Experience at the Centre for Security Analysis as Research Intern
  • Language: Teach French language to beginners and non-beginners at both elementary and intermediate levels. Translation of legal, technical and commercial documents from and into French. Experience at the Alliance Francaise of Madras as part-time faculty since November 2003. Translation experience as freelance translator.
  • Other skills: Well-versed in using the PC for office applications and reasonably well-informed from an end-user perspective.

Work experience

  1. Administrative assistant to COO, BNP Paribas GSMO, Chennai, India, December 2008 - present

  2. Research Intern, Centre for Security Analysis (CSA), Chennai, India, August 2006-January 2007

  3. Professor of French, Alliance Française of Madras, Chennai, India, November 2003-August 2005 & November 2007-November 2008

Education

  1. MA International Affairs, June 2007, Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), Paris, France

  2. Diploma in French Language Teaching, August 2005, University of Rouen, Rouen, France

  3. MA French, April 2005, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  4. Diplôme Approfondi de la Langue Française (Equivalent of the European C1 level of language certification), November 2004, Centre International d’Études Pédagogique, Paris

  5. Diplôme de français des affaires - Level 1 (Diploma in Business French), November 2004, Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris

  6. Diplôme Supérieur de Langue et Culture françaises, August 2003, Alliance Française de Paris

  7. BA History, April 2003, University of Madras, Chennai, India

Professional qualifications

  1. Training for use of songs in Language Training, June 2004, Alliance Française of Bombay

  2. Accreditation as evaluator DELF (A1-B2), April 2008, Alliance Française of Madras

  3. Training as facilitator is cross-cultural sensitization and training, Alliance Francaise of Madras, June 2008

Interests

  • Reading, including non-fiction and domain-related books. Holds a special interest in Indian writing in English
  • Blogging on issues of socio-economic interest at http://blog.amruthaupendran.com. Blogs involve analysis and commentary of articles and papers of personal interest on a wide range of issues including politics, economics and society.

 

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