Dr. Xiaoying Ma is the Director – Teaching & Research of Translation of the School of Foreign Languages of the North China Electric Power University in Beijing, China. She manages the teaching, learning and research of translation and interpretation and lectures on Intercultural Communication, Energy Economics in English, Translation of Finance and the Translation of Economics. She has worked extensively in the business sector in China and holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Management from the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.