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- Favourite Films: Farewell my concubine, Jean de Florette, Central station, Linha de passe, Dead poets society, the Bourne Identity.
- Favourite Albums: anything by Paolo Conté, Jacques Brel, Vinicius de Moraes, Elvis, Shirley Bassey, Astor Piazolla, Rachmaninov and Thaikovsky.
- Favourite books: Gabriel Garcia Marques-Love in the time of Cholera, Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina, Eça de Queiroz-Cousin Basilio and the Crime of Father Amaro, Sebastian Faulkes- Birdsong, Bordewijk- Karakter, Dr Richard Wiseman-The Luck Factor.
- Favourite websites: www.bbc.co.uk; www.amazon.com; www.ba.com; www.lovefilm.com; www.ted.com.
- Likes: cookbooks and trying new recipes; dinner parties; tête a tête with a friend and a bottle of wine; reading; writing poetry; playing piano; Argentine tango; acting; travelling and discovering new cities and cultures; tennis; squash; swimming in the open air; the barbican and Nelson Mandela.
- Dislikes: the district line; queues; vacuum cleaning and household chores; answering “what’s your favourite” questions – there’s so much to like!-; ‘fake’ people; rudeness; bullying and inequality.
I grew up in several different countries around the world. As a result I consider myself a citizen of the world and a bit of a nomad. I love working with people from different walks of life and continuing to learn about what makes people tick, what we all have in common and the outside world. I enjoyed school and extra curricula activities and because I tend to be interested in so many things studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford seemed an ideal course to study. After graduating from Oxford, I worked as an Economist for several years. A moment of impulse prompted me to take a year off to go to drama school and train as a professional actor. Acting is kind of addictive so the one year off became several years during which I focussed on a career on the stage. Then professional role play came along and I developed an interest in the training world and human development. I now work as a role-player, facilitator and trainer, often using acting skills to render the learning more practical and memorable. What I love most about my job is the variety of people and organisations it allows me to meet and delve into. It is also extremely satisfying to come home at the end of the day with a feeling that I have helped people empower themselves in their lives and their work.
I speak mother tongue English, Dutch and Portuguese, fluent French and intermediate Spanish.