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David McAllister, Retired In Hungary

Born 1950 in Boston. Grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and in Bethesda, Maryland near Washington. Began traveling the world at 17 years old when my insane parents let me drive with just some buddies from Washington to Montreal.
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Interview 2: Oliver Strommer, British Business Centre Manager

1. What's been happening at work and at home since your first Xpat Interview?
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Jonathan Spinks, Deputy Principal, Head of Performing Arts, BBIS

Jonathan Spinks moved to Budapest in 1999 and started working at BISB as a Class teacher before coming Head of Music. In 2015 he moved to Bali, Indonesia to take up the same role at an International Bilingual School.
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Xpat Interview 2: Linda Kondor, Artfully Living in the Hungarian Countryside

1. What’s been happening at work and at home since your first Xpat Interview? I left my museum-mania life in Budapest, retired and moved to beautiful Kapolcs Village in the Arts Valley in Northern Balaton. Was initially busy renovating and restoring an old ruin on a vineyard estate. Sometimes questioning my sanity, wearing wellies and knee deep in compost!
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HE Ambassador Mohammed bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Former Qatar's Ambassador to Hungary

I joined the Ministry of Information in 1978, and I affiliated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1979. My first assignment abroad was between 1988 – 1989 as Ambassador to Spain. I was working as undersecretary of the Ministry of Information between 1989 -1996.
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Patrick Mullowney, Budapest Theatre Digest

In 2015 and 2017, Patrick won a translation grant from the Milán Füst foundation to support his work translating plays by Milán Füst (Boldogtalanok) and Sándor Bródy (A dada). He plans to continue his work as a literary translator and dreams of producing an anthology of classic Hungarian plays in his own English translations.
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