Dr. Kathryn Buck brings more than two decades of research, management, and service delivery experience to BLIS's current projects. She began working with business and industry in 1978 as first Director of Language Programs for the Carl Duisberg Society, Inc., where she designed and established corporate language and cross-cultural training programs and co-edited the publication Teaching Business and Technical German: Problems and Prospects. She has lived, studied, and worked with organizations in Germany and has taught at the University of Washington, and at Brooklyn and City Colleges of the City University of New York.

She has served on the staff of and edited publications for the Modern Language Association and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and is a member several professional organizations, including ACTFL, The Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research and the American Society for Training and Development. She also conducts continuing education workshops in methods and materials design for secondary and university educators.

Dr. Buck was managing editor of The ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview: Tester Training Manual (1989 ed.), co-author of "Proficiency Applications Beyond the Academic Classroom" (ACTFL Foreign Language Education Series) and "The Rationale for Defining and Measuring Foreign Language Proficiency in Programs for Business", co-editor or author of additional monographs and articles, and the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2002. (see Awards and Special Projects)