About Me

As an Amer­i­can who stud­ied French lit­er­a­ture & civ­i­liza­tion in Paris in the early 1980s, I decided to live & work in France in 1994 at the ripe young age of 44.

Hid­den in my bag­gage was 15 years as an inde­pen­dent finan­cial pub­lisher in New York City, aca­d­e­mic cre­den­tials in Inter­na­tional Man­age­ment (MA) and a BA in lib­eral arts from Loy­ola Mary­mount Uni­ver­sity in Los Angeles. 

What is not appar­ent in my resumé is a long and active inter­est in finan­cial, macro­eco­nomic & gov­ern­men­tal affairs, backed up with years of polit­i­cal debates and vol­umes of reading.

As an Amer­i­can carte­sian, I strongly believe that these fields are closely inter-​related, which is why I am sur­prised to see so few jour­nal­ist mas­ter or even take an active inter­est in them.

As a finan­cial trans­la­tor,  I have come across quite a broad spec­trum of French and Euro­pean com­pa­nies, each with their own cul­ture and offer­ings. My goal is to share with read­ers tech­nolo­gies and other inno­va­tions in the work­place which I find utterly sur­priz­ing, includ­ing in the areas of ecol­ogy, trans­port, energy, recy­cling, agri­cul­ture & industry.

Beyond the hard news, I would also like to share some of my expe­ri­ences in France, like a recent visit to road­side restau­rant in a charm­ing French province owned by an adorable Irish fam­ily, or a peak into one of my favorite Parisian restau­rants or my fre­quent vis­its to some of the small, his­toric vil­lages in France.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion about my pro­fes­sional life, feel free to check out my translator’s web site.