Ruth Griffiths

Ruth has worked in the languages industry for 30 years. After taking a BA in Modern Languages and Literature from Trinity College, Dublin, she spent three years teaching English in Paris. She returned to London to be a founding member of the BBC's subtitling service, and then spent the next two decades building this into a highly successful operation, based all around the UK. In the late 1990s Ruth's team launched Audio Description for the BBC, and shortly afterwards took on the British Sign Language interpretation unit. In 2001 Ruth became Director of Access Services in the BBC's new commercial subsidy, BBC Broadcast. For the following five years she the commercial development of the Access Services business, winning significant new contracts, building profitability and working on the sale of BBC Broadcast and its transition to Red Bee Media. Since leaving Red Bee Ruth has been working on a number of research and consultancy projects, in both the access and translation arenas.