London, England, United Kingdom
Silvia Lombardo is a multilingual independent news editor, journalist, videoreporter, translator, interpreter, entrepreneur, artist born in Rome. Silvia speaks fluently English, Italian, French and Spanish. She studied languages at the University of Exeter, media at Harvard University where she received a Library of Congress scholarship, theatre dance at the London Studio Centre and ballet at the National Dance Academy (Rome). Silvia published in September 2020 the book "The Bad, the Good, and the Rebellious Bots: World's First in Artificial Intelligence". Silvia also has been working as a news editor for Taboola, providing daily breaking news as well as entertainment articles, videos and news on various topics including climate change and science for smart phones' wallpaper; as a news video reporter she covered politics, tech, music, theatre, the London Olympics, conferences and film festivals in London with Correspondent Corp Ltd owned by The Telegraph; she opened a blog with Huffington Post UK and Italy on start-ups, the EU and climate change and her “Circular Economy EU Package” remained for a month one of the most read breaking news articles; she was one of the five young reporters to be selected by the European Commission in Brussels’ 2014 Green Week conference; she co-founded an educational journalism start-up one-year experiment platform to democratize education where she also organised with the team, a Climate Week school conference between scientists from the Inspire Antarctic Expedition team and students who could interview Robert Swan, the first person in history to walk both Poles; coordinated between schools in New York and London, a Cross Atlantic Alternative Energy Debate with US Democrat Congressman Paul Tonko, ex-President of the New York State Energy Research and UK Conservative Roger Evans, London Assembly and Environment Committee Member. It was awarded among the best three startups at the Met University’s Accelerator - London Business Incubator - 2011 competition, and was featured in many articles including BBC education. Silvia worked in a documentary about the independent film industry, "Makers Our Story" and at major film productions including a Royal Television Society nominated and BAFTA accredited short film where she was the lead actress. She also acted in TV commercials, played Penelope Cruz double, performed in theatre productions, had a line in Downtown Abbey and was directed by Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan as a special character as an extra.
Clients : Allen & Overy, Barclays Bank, BBC, Cannes Film Festival, Channel 4, Chartered Accountants, Chartered Institute of Linguists, Disney, Donnelley Financial London, Hemming Group, HSBC,London Councils, London Fashion Week, Medicare, Merrill Corporation, MTV Networks, NHS, Paramount Pictures, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Shell, Snai, Sony Pictures Releasing, Valentino Fashion Group, VISA etc... Duties include: providing a consecutive and simultaneous interpreting service for conferences and business meetings with top-level company representatives. Providing telephone interpreting in the medical, legal, business, insurance fields. Assessing DPSI (Diploma in Public Services Interpreting) bilingual undergraduate students at the University of Greenwich in law and local government. Providing press coverage, translation, proof-reading, translation-check, multilingual p.a., subtitling, transcription, editing, and voice over services. Attending professional development courses for interpreters and translators attaining certificates such as those prepared by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
-Selecting breaking news on daily bases -Selecting articles, videos and pictures to publish as wallpaper on smart phones using an A.I. editing tool -Providing proofreading and translation services -Attending regular meetings
Remote distance learning to public schools in Uruguay; with the Ceibal Plan, Uruguay was the first country to implement the One Laptop Per Child program devised by technology expert and founder of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
- Attending film festivals to create partnerships and establish contact for film distribution. - Video interviews and photography with film directors.