After graduating from Cambridge University  in 1979, he joined  Schlumberger, the leading oil service company. He took a sabbatical and graduated  from Imperial College, London University  with a Masters in Petroleum  Engineering in 1984. On returning  to Schlumberger, he held various  managerial positions including location  manager  in Belem, Brazil for the company's  operations  in the Amazon rain forest. His 15 years  employment  with Schlumberger took him to  10 countries in  4 continents. He is fluent  in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. For the last year, he has been representing  a Canadian mining  company in Bolivia and in Brazil where he returned  to Belem to coordinate  one of the most ambitious  mining exploration programs currently  taking places in the amazon rain forest.

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