Marc Woodward is a New Zealander who was brought up in Geneva and has lived there for more than half his life. He is thus totally bilingual in French and English. After schooling and initial university studies in Geneva, he attended the University of Auckland where he graduated Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts with first class honours, and Doctor of Philosophy. He taught in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Auckland before returning to the University of Geneva where he obtained the Diploma in Conference Interpreting, with English and French as active languages. While in Auckland, he served as French interpreter for the Auckland District Court and New Zealand Supreme Court. He was the official interpreter at the trial in 1985 of two French secret service agents captured after carrying out a sabotage operation which sank the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour. The trial received world-wide headlines.

As a member of AIIC, the International association of conference interpreters, Marc Woodward has interpreted at many major conferences in Switzerland and around the world, enabling him to form collaborative relationships with an international network of colleagues skilled in interpretation and translation in a wide variety of languages. During the 1990s, aside from his activities as an interpreter and translator, he was a consultant for a Geneva-based company specialising in the organisation of congresses, seminars and arbitrations. He established his own company in 2002.