Above: Interpreter David Violet and French President François Hollande February 14, 2014, San Francisco, California.

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​May 12, 2017: French Minister of the Interior Bernard Caseneuve at Google, Mountain View, California (above).

Above: David Violet, interpreter; Robert Reich, Chancellor's Professor and former US Secretary of Labor; and Michel Sapin, French Economy Minister, January 6, 2017, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

French president François Hollande (right), David Violet (left), February 12, 2014, La Folie restaurant, San Francisco, CA.

French Economy Minister, Michel Sapin, and Interpreter David Violet in Palo Alto, California, January 5, 2017.

Above: David Violet interpreting for Condoleeza Rice and Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, Stanford University, Palo Alto, July 1, 2015. See her tweet above.

David Violet interpreting at Wente Vineyards, Nov. 4, 2017.

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David Violet interpreting for French president François Hollande, San Francisco, CA.

2018: Jerry Brown, California Governor, Governors' Climate Conference, San Francisco.

2017: Melanie Trump, American First Lady, at US State Dept. Washington, D.C.

2014: President of France, François Hollande, San Francisco.

2005: President of France, Nicholas Sarkozy, Paris, France.

2004: President Bill Clinton, Paris, France.

30+ years professional experience

U.S. Department of State conference interpreting rating, 1989 click to view link here.

Long experience with:
U.S. Department of State
United Nations
International Criminal Court, The Hague
NATO
UNESCO
European Union

Member Association Internationale des Interprètes de Conférence (AIIC) since 2003.
​​California Court Certification, 2014.
Traducteur agréé par le Consulat général de France de San Francisco.

Jump seat on C-130 cargo evacuating staff from Kigali, Rwanda, June 11, 1994.

My favorite links:
Interstar
Lourdes de Rioja
Entrepreneurial Linguist
Interpreter Training Resouce

Heads of state, ministers and prominent persons for whom I have interpreted (partial list):
Jerry Brown, Governor of California, 2017
Michael Bloomberg, (former) Mayor of New York, 2017
Melanie Trump, First Lady, 2017
John Kerry, United States Secretary of State, 2016
Dan Rather, Journalist, 2016
Robert Reich, University of California at Berkeley, 2017
Michel Sapin, French Minister of Economy and Finance, 2017
Dilma Roussef, President of Brazil, 2015
Condoleezza Rice, (former) Secretary of State, 2015
Bernard Cazeneuve, French Minister of the Interior, 2015
Francois Hollande, President of the French Republic, San Francisco, 2014
Simone Veil, President, ICC Trust Fund for Victims, The Hague, 2006
Desmond Tutu, ICC Trust Fund for Victims, The Hague, 2006
Nicolas Sarkozy, French Minister of Finance, Paris, 2004, future president of France
Bill Clinton, (former) President of United States, Paris, 2004
George Foreman, two-time world heavyweight Boxing champion and Olympic gold medalist
Hubert Védrine, French Minister of Foreign Relations, Pristina, Kosovo, 1999
José Eduardo dos Santos, President of Angola, Luanda, 1994-99
Sam Nujoma, President of Namibia, Windhoek, 1997
Warren Christopher, US Secretary of State, Luanda, 1996
Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda, Kigali, 1994
Paul Kagame, Vice-President of RPF, future president of Rwanda, Kigali, 1994
Arap Moi, President of Kenya, Nairobi, 1994
Jerry Rawlings, President of Ghana, Accra, 1994
Abdou Diouf , President of Senegal, Dakar, 1994
Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland, Dublin, 1985