Jobs, Careers, Work, Origins

Academia

a US Department of Defense Dependent school in sub-tropical Okinawa, Japan; an American style education means lots of extra-curricular activities after school and culture trips in the summer. Class of 82 list.

a private university in Durham, North Carolina known for its wealthy founders, cut-throat Duke medical school, thousands of acres of forest, the lovely Sarah P Duke gardens, the Blue Devil basketball team, and lots of grand pianos everywhere.   Some older buildings are made from limestone, to look old and wise.

a private university in Ithaca, New York, surrounded by gorges (waterfalls), known for its school of hospitality management and hence wonderful food

an English-speaking university in French-speaking Montreal, cosmopolitan, good introduction to Europe for those in North America

along with Cambridge, one of the oldest universities in England; famous for New College choir, graduating famous people; the buildings and walls are yellow and brown from age - not painted to look old.

part of the University of London, set in Holborn, next to the Lincoln's Inn (law courts), famous for its radical politically-vocal students in the sixties, as well as many post-graduate programmes in law, accounting, operations research, statistics, and computer science

part of the University of London, facing the circular Regent's Park, near Sherlock Holmes' Baker Street and Madame Tussaud's; run like a business with profit centres and transfer pricing, etc. Students nowadays are treated like customers.  One perk of being a student, staff, faculty, or alumni is access to the swimming pool and other health club-like facilities.

Companies

a management consulting firm operating all over the world

once the largest Swiss bank, triple-A rating

an energy company that "was" run like an investment bank

financial derivatives training and consulting

energy news and data provider, a McGraw-Hill company

Associations

International Association for Energy Economics publishes The Energy Journal and holds a national (US) and an international (non-US) conference held each year.

previously TIMS and ORSA:  Operations Research and Management Science. Has a good job announcements section. Publications include Interfaces.   Two national (US) conferences and one international (non-US) conference held each year.

professional speaking.  Find a chapter near you! Sample Speech

Interests

sighreading, accompanying, arranging, composing, organising concerts

cycling, swimming, yoga, pilates, aerobics, dancing

"to go to every single country once before I die"

if music is the food of love, where can I take gourmet cooking classes?

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