• Anne Lequy is married and has two children. She lives with her family in Magdeburg.

  • She was born in 1971 in Montereau-faut-Yonne (France) and is a French citizen.

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience and Further Qualifications

Since 04/2014

Rector, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences (re-election 02/2018)

  • Successful application to the “FH-Personal” (University of Applied Sciences Personnel) programme funded by the German government and federal states (joint project with Anhalt, Harz and Merseburg Universities of Applied Sciences / 2020-2026)
  • Successful application to the “Innovative Hochschule (Innovative University) federal-state initiative (joint project with Harz and Merseburg Universities of Applied Sciences / 2018-2022)
  • Nominated for the “Higher Education Manager of the Year 2017” award (CHE Centre for Higher Education Development and DIE ZEIT weekly newspaper)
  • Project Manager of the German Jordanian University (GJU) in Germany (since 01/2017): www.german-jordanian.org/index.php/de/team.html
  • Project Manager of “Qualitätspakt Lehre” (Quality Pact for Teaching) (EUR 5 million / 2nd funding period 2016-2020)
  • Project Manager of “University initiative for the integration of refugees” (2015-2018)
 
2010-2014

Prorector for Studies and Teaching, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences

  • Design, evaluation (re-)accreditation and development of study programmes (head of the Studies and Teaching committee)
  • Internationalisation, continuing education and gender as cross-functional tasks: German Rectors’ Conference audit “Internationalisation of Universities” (10/2011-11/2012), “Family-Friendly University” audit and re-audit (2010-2019)
  • Project Manager of the Quality Pact for Teaching (EUR 5.2 million / 1st funding period of the programme funded by the German government and federal states 2012-2016): www.hs-magdeburg.de/hochschule/einrichtung/ZHH
  • Successful application to the federal-state competition “Advancement Through Education: Open Universities” (joint project with Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg / 2014-2018): www.weiterbildungscampus.de
  • Quality management in studies and teaching: www.hs-magdeburg.de/hochschule/leitung/prorstl
  • Consultant for the International DAAD Academy (IDA)
  • Expert in accreditation and audit procedures at universities (D-A-CH)
Since 2006

W2 Professor of Specialised Communication - French (Technical Translation) at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences

  • Dean of Studies in the Department of Communication and Media (until 04/2010)
  • Coordinator of French programmes, Erasmus representative (until 04/2010)
  • Organiser of the ERASMUS intensive programme (IP): “Introduction aux juridictions et procédures en Europe: objectif traduction" with six participating universities (03/2010)
  • Programme manager of the International Master’s in “Legal Translation and Interpreting” (Franco-German University, until 04/2010)
2004-2006French lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen on the BA/MA programmes in Cultural and Economic Studies
1998-2004
  • Lecturer in French at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • Elected representative on the Institute's Board (1999-2003) and Faculty Council (2003) of the Faculty of Philology at FSU Jena.
2003
  • Collaboration on the French textbook “Tout va bien”, published by Diesterweg
  • Organisation of the International Student Theatre Festival in Jena
1994-2000

Teaching of French and English in Magdeburg (Chamber of Trade, College of Further Education, Berlitz, Business English for Eurolingua, among others) and Leipzig (summer university)

Since 1998

Part-time work as a sworn French and English interpreter and translator for federal agencies, state authorities, the police, courts and notaries (Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt)

Studies and Research

Since 2010
  • Projects and lectures on university structure, organisation and policy
  • “New Service Quality” project for students and lecturers, the departments and administration taking into account diversity, gender mainstreaming, internationalisation and competition
Since 2000

“Translation didactics and corpus analysis” research project

  • Monolingual / multilingual concordance programmes in the training of translators
  • Corpora as a useful tool for technical translators
2000-2004 Research project: “Translation and Conceptualisation” (academic supervisor: Professor Dr. Krista Segermann, FSU Jena)
1999

German-French dissertation: "Unbehaust? Works of less-known GDR women authors of the 70s and 80s"

  • University of Leipzig (graded summa cum laude, 06.12.1999)
  • Université Metz (with highest honours, 20.01.2000)
1997-1998Winter semester: University of Minnesota in Minneapolis (USA)
1996

Master’s in English (4 years of English Studies), University of Metz, graded good

1994
  • Master’s in German (4 years of German Studies), University of Metz, graded very good
  • Licence d'Anglais mention français langue étrangère (3 years of English studies with a minor in French as a Foreign Language)
 

Grants and Funding

2003 Funding of research project by LUBOM Thuringia
2000-2001 Funding from the Centre for Didactics, FSU Jena (pool post)
1996-1998 Three-year grant, French Ministry of National Education (dissertation)
1994-1996 Two-year grant, Robert Bosch Foundation (tutor programme)
1992-1994

Grant from the Franco-German University,

Fondation de France and Franco-German Youth Foundation

Memberships (Selection)

Academic and Educational Organisations

  • Member of the Board, European University Association (2021-2025)
  • Member of the scientific Advisory Board, Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre (Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education Teaching) (2021-2025)
  • Trustee of the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation (IFF) (2020-2023)
  • Member of the Advisory Board, Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung gGmbH (Centre for Higher Education) (2020-2022)
  • Member of the University Council, Franco-German University (since 2020)
  • Member of the Standing Commission for Organisation and Governance of the German Rectors’ Conference (since 2018)
  • Member of the Speakers’ Committee of the Universities of Applied Sciences in the German Rectors’ Conference (since 2017)
  • Member of the Brandenburg State Council for Higher Education (since 2016)
  • Vice-President of the Rectors’ Conference of the State of Saxony-Anhalt (2016-2018)
  • Scientific Committee, Arab Organization for Quality Assurance in Education (AROQA) (2016)
  • Sponsor of the Hegel Gymnasium Magdeburg, School against Racism - School with Courage (since 2015)
  • Member of Lehren funded by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, the Joachim Herz Foundation, the NORDMETALL Foundation, the Stifterverband (German Donors’ Association) and the Volkswagen Foundation (2014 cohort)

Social commitment

  • Democracy Ambassador, State Programme for Democracy, Diversity and Cosmopolitanism of the State of Saxony-Anhalt (since 2019)
  • State Women's Council for Saxony-Anhalt (Equality Ambassador, 2017)
  • Chair of the State Board of Trustees of the Internationaler Bund (IB Mitte gGmbH) - Saxony-Anhalt (since 2015)
  • Saxony-Anhalt State Integration Advisory Board (2015-2020)
  • Economic and Scientific Advisory Board of the State Sport Federation in Saxony-Anhalt (2014-2019)
  • Joint Speaker of the “Cultural Diversity and Internationalism” advisory council as part of the application of the state capital of Magdeburg for the “2025 European Capital of Culture”
  • “Women in Leadership Positions” advisory board of the Premier of the State of Saxony-Anhalt (2011-2016)

Professional Associations

  • Regional Association (East) of Interpreters and Translators in the German Federal Association of Interpreters and Translators (BDÜ)
  • German Terminology Day

Skills & Interests

  • Russian: basic knowledge, language course in Saint Petersburg (summer 2001), foundation course at the Institute for Slavic Studies at FSU Jena (2002-2003)
  • Piano (10 years) and drums (5 years): solo playing and Big Band
  • Creative writing, yoga, cycling
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