Róisín Saunier

Managing Director and Senior Consultant

Nationality: Irish

Róisín Saunier is a cross-cultural consultant with over 20 years’ international experience. Following a career in business communication training, in 1995, she helped Globalink Inc. to establish their European offices and held several senior management roles with that company.

In 1998, Róisín joined Lernout & Hauspie as a senior consultant. In addition to offering advisory services to government ministries and multinational organizations, she coordinated an international technology joint venture.

Róisín teaches cross-cultural management at the universities of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Paris) and Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand). She holds an MA in linguistics and language technologies from the University of Nanterre, a diploma in cultural studies from the Sorbonne University and is a certified TOEFL trainer. Her executive coach training was with George Renwick at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication.

She has lived and worked in Ireland, the UK, Bahrain and France and has travelled to over 30 countries. Bilingual in English and French, she also speaks Spanish.

Isabelle Bermijn Riggio

Senior Consultant

Nationality: Belgian

Isabelle Bermijn Riggio has more than 15 years of experience with India, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

Interested in India from an early age, Isabelle went to study Indian Languages and Culture in Belgium before moving to India to perfect her knowledge. While studying in Delhi University and in Benares University, Isabelle lived with Indian families, thus acquiring a unique insight into the country, the people and their thinking. Her PhD research at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) brought her back to India.

After working as a representative for a Belgian tour operator in India and Nepal, in 1998 Isabelle opted for a career in the International Committee of the Red Cross, initially as a Hindi-Urdu interpreter in India. After two years, she moved on to becoming a delegate in Eritrea and Gaza, before taking over the post of coordinator in DR Congo and Sri Lanka. Because of her specific knowledge of South Asian languages and cultures, Isabelle also carried out missions in Nepal and in Pakistan.

While studying and working in India and Sri Lanka, Isabelle regularly assisted friends, colleagues and their families to adapt to their new life by introducing them into South Asian culture and customs. Her career with the ICRC gave Isabelle ample experience of working in and managing intercultural teams and taught her how to find solutions for “intercultural” problems.

Isabelle also has experience working as a a freelance journalist and photographer in India, contributing articles on current and social affairs.

She works in English, French, Hindi, Urdu and her mother tongue, Dutch.

Matthew Hill

Senior Consultant

Nationality: British

Matthew Hill is an experienced coach, speaker, consultant and intercultural trainer working in a multi-national business setting with more than 20 years of experience in executive search, HR and training.

Today his work covers a number of training areas including Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Diversity and Difference, International Change Programmes, Virtual Team Building, Assertiveness, Project Management, International Marketing, Time and Self Management, International Leadership and Communication, International Presentation Skills, Executive Coaching, Raising Cultural Awareness, Repatriation and Country Culture Briefings (Russia, Poland, Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Austria, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Ireland the UK.)
Matthew has held the positions of Managing Director, HR Practice Leader, Client Operations Manager and Team Leader for two long-standing global executive search and HR consultancies.

Matthew graduated from London University (Psychology and Life Sciences) and has professional qualifications in advertising and marketing as well as extensive in-house training and development experience. He is a licensed practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and is currently Vice President of SIETAR UK.
He regularly writes, broadcasts and speaks for the BBC, the APU in Cambridge, Newcastle and Zlin Universities, the Belgian and Hungarian Embassies, the CIPD, The British, Australian and New Zealand Chambers of Commerce, UKTI, the Institute of Directors - IOD, SIETAR, The Association of European Businesses and IIR Conferences (Globally Mobile Executives).

Jérôme Dumetz

Senior Consultant

Nationality: French

Born in France, Jérôme Dumetz has more than 10 years of experience with Russia. He has been working as the only foreigner in a state-owned organization with thousands of employees for many years. His deep knowledge of Russian culture and management stems from his MBA lectures with young Russian professionals and from his numerous cross-cultural projects in Russia.

He has organized major cross-cultural trainings for foreign and Russian corporations in Russia such as Enel, Microsoft, Total, Leroy-Merlin, NaDom, or Bonlife and runs cross-cultural managerial coaching for managers in companies such as JP Morgan, PepsiCo, Danone, SCA, Alcoa, or BP.

Jérôme combines his solid business experience in many countries with academic works in the field of cross-cultural management. In cooperation with Fons Trompenaars, he conducted exclusive research about modern Russian business management. He is teaching his specialty in various business schools such as the Plekhanov Academy and Aibec in Russia but also ESSEC, ESCE or IAE Aix in France, FH Steyr in Austria, VSE in Prague or FH Wuerzburg in Germany.