Jane MacKenzie

JANE MACKENZIE studied French Language and Literature at Birmingham University and subsequently spent many years working in education overseas, in France, Africa, the Arabian Gulf and Papua New Guinea. She developed her own educational consultancy, working with over thirty Universities across the UK, and finished her career as Head of the UK Liaison Office at CERN in Geneva, working with researchers and postgraduate students and managing UK University budgets.

Jane served for three years on the Board of the University of the Gambia, for four years on the committee of the Society of Authors in Scotland, has served as a judge for the Scott Moncrieff prize for literary translation from French to English, and is an Ambassador for the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation.

She splits her time between her two homes in the Highlands of Scotland and French Catalonia.