• Caitlin Jones, Former Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy

    Caitlin Jones, Former Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy

    As her name suggests, Caitlin hails from a Welsh family and studied European Studies at Cardiff University. She joined the FCO in 1990 after a stint working at an Argentinian Bank where she was able to use her Spanish. She also speaks French and now a little Hungarian.

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  • Tibor Polgár, Former General Manager at Four Points by Sheraton Kecskemét

    Tibor Polgár, Former General Manager at Four Points by Sheraton Kecskemét

    In the past more than 15 years I gained primarily sales, operational, reorganizational and management experiences in different fields of tourism.

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  • Xpat Interview 2: Sylvia Llewelyn, Artist, Jewellery Designer

    Xpat Interview 2: Sylvia Llewelyn, Artist, Jewellery Designer

    1. What’s been happening at work and at home since your first Xpat Interview?

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  • Zsolt Pálinkás, Chief Operating Officer, Tesco Central Europe

    Zsolt Pálinkás, Chief Operating Officer, Tesco Central Europe

    Zsolt has two BSc degrees in Economics from a couple of different respected institutions: Budapest Business School (1999 – 2003) and the University of Debrecen (2002 – 2004).

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  • Xpat Interview: dr. Soma Kölcsényi, Family Lawyer

    Xpat Interview: dr. Soma Kölcsényi, Family Lawyer

    dr. Soma Kölcsényi is a family lawyer. Specialized in cases involving non-Hungarian clients having family legal issues under Hungarian jurisdiction.

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  • XpatLoop Interview: Laurent Langlais, Lifestyle Consultant

    XpatLoop Interview: Laurent Langlais, Lifestyle Consultant

    Laurent is French born and raised, and his accent is still here to prove it. Fascinated by cities and the metaphysics from an early age, he always wanted to explore urban reality 2.0. After having worked as a computer artist creating virtual worlds, he left this creative but hectic profession to travel the world and ended up spending much time in Asia. This is where he found his true calling as a lifestyle consultant, specialized in Feng Shui and Chinese astrology. Learning this methodology from historical Asian lineages has been a fascinating journey in combining architecture, design and metaphysic: a stunning example of this practice is the Forbidden City in Beijing. His work is nowadays to understand why some places support our lives and some work against us, and to fix them. He likes to define his work as acupuncture for architecture.

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