Maria Barouti graduated in 2007 from the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpretation of the Ionian University in Corfu having Greek, English and French as working languages. During her studies she realized a six-month training in Literary Translation at the Montpellier III University, and since then she has worked as a freelance translator of general, scientific and literary texts and as an English and French teacher. In June 2015 she completed her postgraduate studies in Conference Interpreting at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She also speaks Spanish.

Savvina-Melina Papadaki was born in Thessaloniki. She obtained her middle-school diploma from the Greek-French School Kalamari of Thessaloniki and her high school diploma from the Shawnee Mission South High School in Kansas, USA. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Translation Studies from the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpretation of the Ionian University in Corfu. During her studies, she attended classes in the University of Strasbourg. She also obtained her MA degree in Conference Interpreting from the Joint Postgraduate Program of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is a freelance translator and interpreter with Greek, English and French as her working languages.