Bernd Meyer is a linguist by training, and a specialist for different aspects of multilingual communication in institutional settings. He graduated with a dissertation on interpreter-mediated briefings for informed consent at Hamburg University in 2003. Since 2010, he is Professor for Intercultural Communication and Cultural Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germany) in the Department for Translation, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies. Having been a full-time researcher and principal investigator on projects on interpreting and multilingualism conducted at the Research Centre for Multilingualism in Hamburg (SFB Mehrsprachigkeit), he is an expert in the analysis of interpreter-mediated interaction, as well as in the application of such findings to interpreter training.