Author: Ádám Gerencsér

My roots are Hungarian, though owing to the nomadic impulses of my parents I grew up on the move, mostly in Germany, North Africa and Australia. Then, as a student in Aberystwyth, Wales, I met my brilliant best friend Gina from Malaysian Borneo. A decade ago she became my wife.

Pursuing a childhood dream to work for the most ambitious utopian project on Earth, I left my management post at IBM and moved to Brussels in 2012. I joined the European Commission’s directorate-general for translation, initially as a translator and workflow coordinator, then as a quality officer.