Alan Watson

Athletes and Other Lower Types

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu.com
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780557117246
• ISBN-10: 0557117240
• Artikelnr.: 29505554

Autorenporträt

Alan Robert Watson was born in 1958, the youngest child of Alister George Douglas Watson by his second wife Susan Emily nee Blunt. He is descended from the John Watson who moved his family from Montgomeryshire to Carlow in about 1658 in two separate ways, in a direct male line from one son Samuel Watson and, via his great grandmother Isabella Bewley, from the elder son John Watson. Like his father and half-brother Alan set out to be a mathematician, but was diverted by student politics and didn't do a stroke of academic work. Instead he became president of the University of Warwick Students' Union and later Treasurer of the UK National Union of Students. Sorting out management problems there caught his interest and his first 'proper job' was the Audit Commission for Local Authorities in England and Wales, which sponsored him to take an MBA. Alan later moved into banking, working first for HSBC and later BNP Paribas. He met his wife Yuying (a biology professor) while helping the latter bank set up a securities trading subsidiary in Taiwan and left the bank to study Chinese there. He still lives in Taipei, now a house husband. A few years ago he became interested in his family history, which now occupies much of his time.