Born in Morocco from a Belgian mother and an Italian father, I have lived on, in the past 4 decades on four different continents and more than a dozen cities. Learning languages and getting to know how different cultures valued differently the same things has always been a driving force behind my travels, so if there is something exceptional about me, that is my awareness and openness to different ways of looking at the world.

I have, out of all this, extracted a great deal of understanding of what makes us really different and what makes us really equals.

I have also invested heavily over the past 20 years in training myself in different fields of knowledge and doing, from technology and carpentry (Diplomas), to Economics (B.A.), Psychology (M.A.), Environmental Science (M.A.) and farming (found Kansha Project Community farm in Japan).

This too, has widen the freedom of my thoughts and the openness to different ways of seeing the world. I can't get enough of it, for like Socrates said "The more one knows, the more one knows that he does not know".

Throughout 2003 I was in Vietnam where I taught English and learned Arabic and Vietnamese in the meantime. I ate some of the most delicious foods in this country, including super bugs! In the winters of 2001 and 2002 I was in Japan, where I volunteered in a small family hotel while studying Japanese. From 2001 onward my main work focused on teaching languages. I could speak 8 languages by now. Then In July 2006, after spending some time back in Australia, I decided to cycle from Indonesia to Japan solo, completing a 12000 km journey throughout South-East Asia, and learning five more languages. What an unforgettable journey!

Recently, in July 2013, after six years spent eating sushi and ramen ;) in Japan, I left for Sweden to complete a Master in Human Ecology for the department of Sciences in Sustainability at Lund University. My focus kept being education, and I am now completing my research thesis on the future of education. I focus on how educational institutions are managing these times of enormous change and wonder whether they are growing or not 21st century skills.

I am always busy inventing useful contraptions, building, learning, passing on awareness and gaining insight in this magic medium that is life.