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Hisashi Nakamura was born in a village in the mountains of central Japan in 1950. His first job was as a customs officer at the busy port of Nagoya. He has been writing poetry from an early age and at
An engineer by training and a Chartered Accountant, Martin Myerscough, has worked for a number of accountancy firms, his final position being that of a manager with Arthur Andersen & Co. in London. He then held the position of Finance
Professor Murphy is currently Professor of British and Commonwealth History at the University of Reading, seconded as Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. At Reading, he was responsible for establishing one of the UK's first courses on the intelligence
Ivo Mulder is a Programme Officer for the UN Environment Programme – Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), based in Geneva. UNEP FI is a strategic partnership between UNEP and nearly 200 global financial institutions. He is responsible for managing UNEP FI’s
Sir Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 until 2009. Born in 1952, he read English at University College, Oxford and subsequently spent two years writing about the poetry of Edward Thomas for an M. Litt. From 1976 to 1980