Paola Valli holds a PhD in Translation and Interpreting Studies from the University of Trieste, which focused on translation technologies, translation problems and translation process research.

She advanced her education with study visits at the University of Iowa, Copenhagen Business School and Saarland University and gained further experience working at Lionbridge/CLS 4-Text, at Translated in Rome and at the European Parliament in Luxembourg.

In a product manager capacity, she later helped develop the TAUS Quality Dashboard – an industry-shared platform which visualizes translation quality and productivity data.

Currently based in Switzerland, she works as project manager in analytics for the leading private media group in the country.