Middlebury Institute Alumni to Lead Interpreter Corps at Tokyo Olympic Games

Middlebury Institute alumni Alexandre Ponomarev MACI ’00 and Maureen Sweeney MPA ’94 will serve as chief and deputy chief, respectively, of the interpreting staff for the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan in 2020. In these roles, they will be responsible for recruiting, coordinating, and supervising a staff of paid professional interpreters and high-level language volunteers numbering in the hundreds and including Institute faculty, alumni, and students.