i-DELTA | Institute for the Development of Languages and Translation in Africa

Name	Bio
Carol Ngugi	Carol Ngugi is the Registrar for SIL i-DELTA. She lives in Nairobi Kenya with her husband and two boys.
Dr. William (Bill) Gardner	Director for the Anglophone i-DELTA courses.
Efi Watters
Elizabeth Olsen	Elizabeth Olsen holds a Master's degree from the University of London. She completed a language project among the Dogon in Mali. After that she taught at Pan Africa Christian University in the Translation Degree Programme. For her last few years there, she was also the Head of the Translation Department. Elizabeth is the Academic Advisor for i-DELTA and will be available to discuss educational plans with students and sponsors.
Emmanuel Sawadogo
Jutta Bluehberger	Jutta [YU-ta] Blühberger is a real Viennese from Austria who works in Mali, West Africa. Since 1993 Jutta has been working full time with SIL in Africa. From 1993-1996 she worked in the Central Africa Republic (CAR) in language survey (assessing translation needs) and in computer support. During this time she started her MA studies in Intercultural studies in order to become an anthropology consultant and graduated in 2005. Jutta began a PhD study program in 2008, which is part of her ongoing training as an anthropology consultant.
Lukas Neukom	Lukas Neukom did his studies in General and African Linguistics at the University of Zurich and received his PhD as a result of his studies in the grammar of the Indian language, Santali. Since then, he has returned to Africa and worked mainly on two languages (Kenga, Nilo-Saharan in Chad, and Mbelime, Gur, in Benin). He is currently Linguistic Coordinator for ANTBA;and SIL in Burkina Faso. His special interests lie in Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar Writing, Typology; and languages of Burkina Faso. He is married to Dorothea and has two children, Rahel and Rafael.
Maik Gibson	Dr. Maik Gibson, teacher of Sociolinguistics at i-Delta, is the Head of the Translation Studies Department at NEGST, Africa International University, Nairobi, and an international sociolinguistics consultant with SIL International. He holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Reading and a Masters from Cambridge Univeristy, and has published articles on sociolinguistics and language change.
Margaret Hill	Margaret Hill is the Scripture Use Coordinator for SIL Africa Area.
Tom Marmor