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A BRIEF BIO OF MARK SYDNEY Mark Sydney did his BA (1968) in Canadian History at the University of Toronto, Canada, after which he wrote for, designed and edited a labor publication in the city before being seconded to a division of the International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, thus instantly becoming an international bureaucrat. There Mark did research; worked on publications and translations; organized conferences, conference documentation and conference translations around the world; had the opportunity to visit 130 countries; and to enjoy extended stays in cities such as Paris, Budapest, Helsinki, Cairo, Bogotá, Moscow and Brussels. He speaks, besides English, of course, French, Spanish, Russian and a fair smattering of Italian and German, plus some street Arabic, Hungarian and Finnish not acceptable in 'proper' society. Retreating to Canada, Mark Sydney returned to work on a labor newspaper and was then hired by the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa for its press and publications department, where he came immediately under fire – and survived relatively unscathed – handling his first major assignment: the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. When that position died with the collapse of the Soviet Union, he migrated (1992) to Costa Rica where he has resided ever since. From the snobbish heights of having owned an art gallery in San José, Mark has since descended to successfully puttering about (for the past dozen years or so) in the general travel, sportfishing and real estate businesses first with Costa Rica's Travel Web and now as an Associate (read 'jack-of-all-trades') of Americana Sportfishing, Fish Costa Rica and Americana Real Estate, where he is currently thriving. |