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John Birnie
I started work as a bright and bushy tailed academic way back in the 60’s, teaching Linguistics and then English in universities in England and, for 8 years, in West Africa at the University of Gha...view moreI started work as a bright and bushy tailed academic way back in the 60’s, teaching Linguistics and then English in universities in England and, for 8 years, in West Africa at the University of Ghana. When I came back to University College, London I was horrified to find how idle the undergraduates were and decided that I was too old and intolerant for them. So I jumped at the opportunity to run a charter airline with roots in my old stamping ground in West Africa. After many exciting years operating flights to exotic destinations - often, just as a war was about to erupt or to get really hot - I decided that I was too old to be woken in the middle of the night by whinging captains or Oliver Norths. So I became the Chairman of a global currency company in the City of London. Supervising the trading of billions of dollars turned out to be more stressful than landing in the middle of a coup or being bombed on the ground by the Iraqis in Tehran. So, as you can see from the picture I was glad to retire to my writing table with a nice glass of wine to hand.view less