Maryse Benhoff
Chair, Standards Committee
Maryse M. Benhoff is the President of BG Communications International Inc., a leading translation services provider headquartered in Montréal, Canada. She is recognized for being a pioneer in translation standardization and for championing the advancement of women in business.
Her lengthy and impressive track record in translation standards began in 2003 with her appointment as Canada's official representative to the Comité européen de normalisation (CEN Committee) during the development of the European translation standard.
In 2007, bringing her European experience back to Canada, she served on the Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB) where she was mandated to develop a National Standard for Canada's corporate translation sector (CAN/CGSB 131.10).
In 2009, she joined the Canadian team to ISO TC 37/SC 5 and became its Chairperson in 2014, position that she holds concurrently with her role as International Committee Manager of ISO TC37/SC2. Both of these positions had previously been held by the federal government of Canada since 1975. In January 2018, she was elected as the International Chair of ISO's TC37/SC5 for a six-year mandate (2018-2023).
Since 2009, Ms. Benhoff also serves on the Board of Directors of Canada's national Language Industry Association (AILIA). She is Chair of the AILIA Standards Committee, which oversees the revision of CGSB 131.10. In 2019, she was nominated by AILIA to sit on the Industry Advisory Committee on Neural Machine Translation established by the Translation Bureau of Canada, composed of some of the most prominent language industry experts in the country.
She has been a member of the Women Presidents' Organization since 2007 and WBE Canada (Women Business Enterprises Canada Council) since 2009. She was nominated to the Supplier Advisory Committee within WBE Canada in 2019 and was elected its Chair in 2020.
A thought-leader and industry insider, Ms. Benhoff also sits on the Translation Programming Committee at McGill University with a view to shape curricula and course content to align new professionals with market demands.
