Nancy Ackerman is an editor–linguist with over 30 years experience editing and writing in academia, public affairs, and development. She is herself multilingual in English, French, Russian, German, Spanish, and is familiar with all other European languages, Persian and Japanese). Her preferred subjects are political science, development, humanitarian assistance, economics, humanities, health, medicine, and women’s studies. She has had extensive experience with texts written by non-native speakers/writers of English in a wide range of styles, from formal academic to concise journalism. She is much praised by clients for her meticulous work and ability to preserve the author’s intent and voice, while improving style, lively readability, and conciseness.

Her clients have been native speakers of Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Russian, and Spanish.

She specializes in advanced stylistic, structural, and copyediting for academics and professionals in the social sciences, economics, political science, medicine, government, and the NGO community. She has edited books, academic papers, journal and magazine articles, reports, doctoral theses, abstracts, grant proposals, handbooks, press-releases and op-eds, promotionals, event programmes and websites.

She has an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Toronto and an M. Ed. from Boston University, and has worked in the fields of neurolinguistics and public relations, responsible for writing, research, press relations, event management, government and NGO community relations, public information, and website supervision.