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Xpat Interview: Robert Mackintosh, IT Systems Engineer

In April 1999 Robert Mackintosh arrived in Budapest for a short trip with his future wife Ildiko. Since then his heart never left.
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Xpat Interview: Katherine Zibell

Katherine Zibell is still somewhat of a newcomer to the city, arriving in June of this year. Even so, she was recently elected to serve as Marketing Chairwoman for the Professional Women's Association (PWA) of Hungary.
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Xpat Interview: Angelica Károlyi

My husbands' family left Hungary in 1946 after the expropriation of their stately home and settled in Paris where we met at university in 1965, studying political science. I am myself of German origin and was also brought up in Paris. We married, I learned Hungarian.
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Updated: Szabina Szulló, Former Executive Chef At Onyx Restaurant

I have been the executive chef of the Gerbeaud House and Onyx Restaurant since 2004. I have risen slowly in the hierarchy through promotion by seniority and step by step I became chef de partie. As a trainee, I could get an insight of the world's couisines led by an Austrian, a French, and a Swiss chef. Today the firm running the house is committed to steady renewal and to the realization of my ideas. For me the most important thing to see professionalism at house ensured. By 2004, that team has been formed which I could bravely undertake the head-cook position with.
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Updated: Tamás Széll, Former Sous Chef At Onyx Restaurant

Tamás was born in Budapest in 1982. He studied at Csepel Vendéglátó Technikum for several years.
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Xpat Interview: Diana Smith Walsh, Author

Diana Smith Walsh was born in Jamaica West Indies and studied in the United States of America. She received her master degree from the University of Rochester, Simon School of Business. Prior to her current role as an expat wife, she was a banker, a not-for-profit president, and an adjunct professor in economics.
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