User:(WT-en) Dixmith

My name is Richard Smith, call me "Dick". Age, mid-70s. Married 55+ years. Live in Arlington, MA, USA, 20-30 minutes from downtown Boston. Can be reached e-mail dixmith@dixmith.org, telephone (781)648-1861.

Speak enough German to carry on very, very basic conversation; enough Japanese and Russia to find my way to the bathroom or the train station.

Worked from 1993-2003 on Securities Market Development projects in Russia, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Romania, Bulgaria, and Egypt. Semi-retired unless some consulting firm wins a bid and wants me to participate.

In addition to countries in which I have worked, I have traveled to nearly all European countries; in Africa: Morocco, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia; in Asia:  Japan (25 times as a volunteer tour leader), China (8 times as a volunteer tour leader), India, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore; in South America: Peru, Ecuador (including Galapagos), Brazil, briefly to Argentina and Paraguay; several Caribbean islands; Mexico; Australia; New Zealand.