Oliver trained as a lawyer at the London School of Economics and has been living in Budapest for eleven years.

He is the Executive Director of the Mental Disability Advocacy Center, a human rights charity working internationally and which needs you to donate your 1% of income tax: 18108213-1-42!

1. When did you arrive in Hungary and what brought you here?
2002, to work as a lawyer at the Mental Disability Advocacy Center.

2. Have you ever been an expatriate elsewhere?
Briefly in Estonia, but it was cold and luckily we moved the organisation to Budapest!

3. What surprised you most about Hungary?
How quickly a government can abandon democratic values and solidify human rights violations.

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?
Come round for dinner. Get out of Budapest, visit a spa and spend couple of days in Balatonfüred.

5. What is your favourite Hungarian food?
Paprikás csirke and nokedli.

6. What is never missing from your refrigerator?
Kefir.

7. What is your favourite Hungarian word?
Törölközö ( towel)

8. What do you miss the most from home?
A vigorous media.

9. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?
Commercial pilot.

10. What's a job you would definitely never want?
Maxilo-facial surgeon.

11. Where did you spend your last vacation?
India.

12. Where do you hope to spend your next one?
Tuscany.

13. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?
Gustav Mahler!

14. Apart of temptation what can't you resist?
One more glass of wine.

15. Red wine or white?
Talking of which, white.

16. Book or movie?
Book.

17. Morning person or night person?
Night.

18. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?
Injustice due to difference.

19. Buda side or Pest side?
Do I need a visa for Buda?

20. What would you say is your personal motto?
Use your skills to help others less lucky.