Nico Segers

Past

• Business Translator at Business Architects Inc., Belgium
• Job student (parttime) at KU Leuven, Research Center for Communications Management

Education

• Universiteit Antwerpen
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Centrum voor Levende Talen (CLT) Leuven

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Connections

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Industry

International Affairs

Nico Segers’s Summary

Additional expertise (non-compulsory study subjects within standard curriculum, on file) in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Political Anthropology,History of International Relations, Peace Research and Conflict Management, European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP/CFSP), EU-NATO cooperation.

Nico Segers’s Specialties:

analytical skills, investigative (heuristical) skills on archive material, documents and academic literature, appropriate speaking in public, proficiency in English communication (Test of English as a Foreign Language ETS score: 640 out of 677 correct or 93%), negotiating skills, enhancing social capital.

Nico Segers’s Experience

• Business Translator

  Business Architects Inc., Belgium

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2007 — September 2007 (2 months)

  Translation, compiling and editing work on a professional, comprehensive English software manual for Component Banking & Loans software

• Job student (parttime)

  KU Leuven, Research Center for Communications Management

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Public Policy industry)

  February 2007 — March 2007 (2 months)

  Computer-aided editing of information from (videorecorded) group interviews and rendering into ready-to-read text format.
  This task was embedded within a research assignment issued by the Flemish Government to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven concerning mobility infrastructure and efficiency, knowledge on traffic regulations/code, and qualitative evaluations on public transportation
  
  Result: an accurate and compehensive verbatim of five three-hour long group discussions.

Nico Segers’s Education

• Universiteit Antwerpen

  Masters, International relations & diplomacy, 2007 — 2008

  Included a Erasmus Exchange during 2nd semester (February untill end of June 2008) at the University of Bologna, Forli Campus, Faculty of Political Sciences 'Roberto Ruffilli' and regularly at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center

• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

  Masters, Modern History, 2003 — 2007

  Public dissertations of scientifically relevant information/slideshow presentation concerning the American Military-Industrial Complex and its linkages with current U.S. economy, foreign policy and the War in Iraq accompaying a critically acclaimed documentary. Another slideshow dissertation concerned the role of the Eisenhower administration, the CIA and UN in post-independence Congo up to the assassination of Patrice Lumumba.

  Activities and Societies:

  Kring Internationale Betrekkingen (www.kib.be)

• Centrum voor Levende Talen (CLT) Leuven

Additional Information

Nico Segers’s Interests:

history of politics and diplomacy, cultural history and anthropology, intelligence assessment, American think-tanks, (European) defense and security policy, submarine reconnaissance, nuclear deterrents and notions of brinkmanship (Cold War era), ethics of war and peace,humanitarian law, integrative negotiation, Israel-Palestine conflict,

Nico Segers’s Contact Settings

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