Rebekka Ehret is a lecturer at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Basel. Since 2008, she has been teaching at the Lucerne School of Social Work (Switzerland). She was the head of the linguistic and judicial interpreter training program at the Special Court in Sierra Leone, West Africa (2004 - 2008). She was a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences of North-West Switzerland, within her European Institute (1992 - 2004) and at the Seminary of Ethnology (University of Basel). She has followed a Teaching Program in Teaching at the University of Basel (2000-2001) after a course in Human Resources Management (University of Basel, 1999). Shholds a Doctorate in Ethnology & Anglistics (University of Basel, 1998). She has studied Communication (University of Basel, 1995) and Language (University of Basel, 1994).