Anne Lequy
Anne Lequy (born 1971) is Rector of Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and a Professor for Specialised Communication – French there. Early life and education. Lequy was born in Montereau-Fault-Yonne (France) in 1971. Following studies in German as a Foreign Language as well as English Language and Literature, she obtained a joint Franco-German doctorate from Paul Verlaine University – Metz (now University of Lorraine) and Leipzig University in 1999 (). Career. Lequy has worked as a sworn interpreter and translator (French A, German B, English C) for German federal agencies and state authorities since 1998. She also  worked as a Lecturer for French at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (1998–2004) and the University of Duisburg-Essen (2004–2006). Since 2006 she has been Professor for Specialised Communication – French (technical translation) at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences with a research focus on Computer Supported Translation Teaching and Corpus Analysis. She was the Programme Manager of the International Master in "Legal Translation and Interpreting" of the Franco-German University until April 2010. As prorector (or vice-rector) of Studies and Teaching from 2010 to 2014 she was responsible for the (re)accreditation, new study programmes, quality of teaching and  internationalisation. During this time she was the Project Manager of the Quality Pact for Teaching. In 2014 Lequy became the first woman appointed to the position of Rector at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences. She remains the only female Rector in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. She was re-elected in February 2018. Since 2017 she has been project manager of the German Jordanian University (GJU) in Germany. She became a member of the Board of the European University Association in spring 2021. Personal life. Lequy is married and has two children. She lives with her family  in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.