Agata Szkiela

An orientalist fascinated and specialized in cultures and civilizations of the East, translator, journalist, traveler, and a longtime intercultural business trainer and lecturer with fifteen years of professional experience in a multicultural diplomatic environment and UN structures. CEO of the Polish-Canadian Translating Cultures enterprise for the past 11 years. Associated with the European Academy of Diplomacy since 2005, providing lectures and workshops on cross-cultural communication, intercultural business etiquette, indigenous and aboriginal people, cultural shock, dimensions of culture and intercultural competence. Currently, the EAD senior lecturer of intercultural dimension of diplomacy and cultural differences in business environment.