Gabriel Fairman
Bureau Translations
Rua Batataes 460
São Paulo – SP
Brasil
cep. 01423-010
Email:gabriel.fairman@bureautranslations.com
Phone: +55 11 3059 8250
Web: www.gabrielfairman.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Fairman
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Gabriel Fairman is a Brazilian philosopher and entrepreneur who is
currently the CEO of Bureau Translations, a translation and localization
company.
While at Swarthmore College, Fairman studied under Frank & Gil
Mustin Professor Kenneth Gergen and developed an unprecedented special
major entitled “The Death and Re-Birth of Human Agency” with a
concentration in Interpretation Theory. Under this major sponsored by
the Philosophy and Psychology Departments, Fairman studied how the human
decision-making process is impaired by a lack of awareness of paradigms
and cultural influences over our perceptions. After graduating from
Swarthmore College, he spent four months at Fo-Guang-Shang, a Buddhist
monastery in Kaohsiung, Taiwan living the monastic life, meditating and
practicing kung-fu. He then went on to work in global procurement in New
York and finally returned to Brazil.
In Brazil, Fairman worked in the mining and metals segment mediating
negotiations between Brazilian producers and Chinese buyers for a year
before joining Vale, the world’s second largest mineral producer. He
then went on to become the head of Bureau Translations where he applies
core Buddhist principles mixed with Social Constructionism, and Shaolin
thought to the company’s daily routine. He is known for his humane
approach to business and lectures on the origin of the Translation
metaphor and how an understanding of this origin changes the very act of
translation. Fairman’s current line thought takes the understanding and
appreciation of metaphors and their origins to the limit in terms of
shedding light on how we do things and how we could possibly face things
differently.
