Åsa Ralpher is head of language and publishing at Scania and part of a team consisting of four terminologists, one language advisor and five translation managers. The team is in charge of Scania Lexicon, a terminology database with approximately 7,000 approved terms and 1,000 deprecated, in an average of 24 languages, as well as handling the translation processes for all Scania service information, approximately 45 million target words divided between 25 information products and 18-29 languages. She has a professional background of five years in the consultancy business for technical writing, over  ten years in different managerial and selling positions within the localization business, and the past five years as head of language and publishing. Åsa has formal training in business administration and languages from Uppsala University and the University of Kingston upon Hull in the UK, and a diploma for corporate governance/board of directors from the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.