Emmanuel Durand

I was born and lived my childhood in a small town in France near Nantes. I went to University in Marseilles because I wanted to study and be a researcher in Marine Biology. I had the opportunity to go to England for a year on an Exchange programme, and that's where I met my Hongkongese wife.

We married in 1997 and I arrived in Hong Kong right after the hand over to China. I was fortunate to find a job at the French International School as a laboratory technician. In 2001, I had the opportunity (and training) and I switched to Information Technology.

For the next 20 years, I was involved into pretty everything an IT guy working in a school would do: user support (lot's of!), domain configuration, batch accounts and emails creation, software, servers and computers provisioning and installation, web application development, policy writing and enforcement, budgeting, web editing, documentation writing, etc.

Starting February 2021, another career change: I am now a sole proprietor of a French language learning centre and I am teaching French to all ages, from babies to adults. Exciting times!

Life is full of challenges, big or small. Learn, learn from them, the successes and the failures, that's how we grow. Learn to be a better person, always, even if the world around you seems hostile.

In my spare time, I love playing football (the European one!) and cooking/baking.

I have a wife and two lovely daughters, and my family is my life.

I have an old IT blog which I'm not updating anymore (shame!). You can find me on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, click on the icons below.

Merci !