Extensive experience

Ragini Werner is a native-English editor from New Zealand who came to live in the Netherlands in 1980. She speaks fluent Dutch (with a Kiwi accent) and feels very much at home in this country.

Career

She trained as a corporate journalist (London School of Journalism) and as an English-language editor (ITV/Utrecht University of Applied Science). Prior to setting up NEEDSer, she worked for 20 years in corporate communications at Reed Elsevier’s scientific, technical and medical publishing division, Elsevier Science in Amsterdam. For 10 years she was editor of ES World, a magazine for all Elsevier Science employees around the world.

Clients

Since 2000, Ragini has gained extensive experience working as an author's own editor, mainly for academics writing for publication in journals in widely diverse fields, from Economics (including the new discipline Neuro-Economics) through Humanities to Social Sciences. She has edited several books in Business Management and Sales Marketing for Wolters-Noordhoff in Groningen and Professional Capital in Rotterdam.

NEEDSer clients include private individuals and all sorts of native-Dutch academics conducting research at universities or hospitals. Corporate clients include the Dutch university language centres based in Amsterdam, Maastricht, Groningen and Nijmegen, as well as EU institutes and local government departments, Dutch consultants, PR bureaus, film makers, artists, photographers and graphic/web designers, financial advisors, teachers and trainers.

Contacts

A member of SENSE (Society of English Native-Speaking Editors), the association for English-language professionals working in the Netherlands, Ragini was elected SENSE Membership Secretary in 2010. She is a member of EASE (European Association of Science Editors), the internationally oriented community of English-language professionals who share an interest in science and communication.

Creativity

Ragini likes creative painting, writing, and playing on Facebook. Her short stories have been published in the USA, Belgium, the Netherlands and New Zealand. She is (still) writing her first novel.