Originally, my parents were from France, but for many years they worked in Morocco (North Africa), and therefore, I was born in Casablanca (while my parents lived there). I graduated from a Business School in Northern France. Since 1992, I have been working with an International Organization, whose headquarters are in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We develop literacy programs around the world. For 4 years, I was based in Iraq (from 1993 to 1997). Since 2001, I have been the Director for Africa with that Organization. Thus, I have had the opportunity to travel many times to different African nations in the recent years. Besides English, I speak French, Arabic and some Spanish. I am a Christian (I studied at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY) and I am a Conservative (religiously and politically speaking).