Deanne de Vries VP Africa Strategic Initiatives, Agility (Kuwait) March 2010
Deanne De Vries is a career woman, a traveler and an adventurer. Born and raised in San Jose, California to Dutch parents, she has lived in Belgium, the Netherlands, Kenya, South Africa, the United States, the United Kingdom, Iraq and now Kuwait…
Debbie Travis Television Star, Producer and Entrepreneur Extraordinaire February 2010
Once upon a time, Brit Debbie Travis modeled with celebrity supermodel Gail Elliott. Today, long-term expat Debbie Travis is a household name in Canada, famous for producing and hosting three successful lifestyle television series that now show worldwide…
Tess Johnston Author, Researcher, Lecturer & Retired Diplomat January 2010
More than 45 years ago, Tess Johnston left the security of her life in Virginia, United States, to become an American diplomat abroad. She spent seven years in Germany (both East and West), seven years for USAID in Vietnam during the war, then returned to the Foreign Service to live in India, France and China...
Michelle Greene is the IT Director at Johnson Controls. She has also been honored as one of the Most Important Blacks in Technology (MIBiT). Michelle shares with us her career advice and talks about how her assignment in Sweden helped to get her to where she is today...
In 2000, Nathalie joined Net Expat as a partner. Today Nathalie manages a team of 300 HR consultants around the globe and ensures a smooth delivery of NET EXPAT services together with the Operations Team...
Eve Yen left Taiwan for the United States for her daughters' education. The next year, she started Diamond Wipes International in a small 1,700 square foot office space. Today, Eve's company produces more than one million wipes a day...
Liz Perelstein founded School Choice International, which now has 90 consultants in 50 locations worldwide. Liz also co–founded the British International School of New York, is a member of the WPO and was a semi–finalist in the 2009 International Women of Influence Awards...
Since 1979, Kim Edwards has worked and travelled across 59 nations, including disaster relief work in Iraq, Lebanon, the West Bank and Jordan. Now, she runs Sea English Academy International, which delivers training in more than 20 locations across 15 countries worldwide...
Suzanne Garber is a global nomad success story. She grew up in Spain, Mexico, Algeria, Egypt, the Dominican Republic and various US states, lived in Brazil when working as the Managing Director for FedEx in South America, and now looks after expats via her role with International SOS...
In the early 1990's, Barb de Corti, originally from Austria, turned microfiber into the hottest cleaning item to hit the Australian bench top. Her passion to turn Australia green earned her the position of Australia's wealthiest young female entrepreneur at the age of 40...
For 25 years, Stephanie White had been a top international marketing and branding executive, working in Australia, London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles. Now Stephanie runs her own million-dollar business and offers opportunity to women worldwide...
Since 2002, American Anne Beitel has been working for Executives Online in the UK - first as Marketing Director, and since January 2008, as Managing Director. In December 2008, she teamed with fellow directors to complete a management buy-out of Executives Online from its founder and majority shareholder...
Gry Tina Tinde leads the UNHCR's Women Leading for Livelihoods (WLL) program, which aims to develop skills and business opportunities for refugee women, funded and guided by executive and philanthropic women worldwide...
US Pan Asian American Chamber of
Commerce Education Foundation
February 2009
Susan came to the United States from Hong Kong on an invitation from the White House. In 1999, she was named one of 25 most influential Asians in America and in 2008 she was named as one of US's top Diversity Advocates, among notables such as President William Clinton, President Jimmy Carter and Oprah Winfrey...
Italian-born Graziella Zanoletti started her luxury car hire and chauffeur service company Elite Rent-a-Car in 1987 and has built it today to a €20 million business, spanning seven countries, with sales representatives in 5 additional countries...
Pamela Skuse Misión México Foundation December 2008
When Pamela and husband Alan left their safe haven of home to volunteer at an orphanage in Mexico for twelve months, never did they realise that eight years on, they would be running the orphanage and helping hundreds of Mexico's poorest children...
Carol Bellamy assumed the leadership of World Learning in May 2005, having completed ten years as executive director of UNICEF, the children's agency of the United Nations. Prior to joining UNICEF, Carol was Director of the United States Peace Corps...
Margaret is a senior career officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Prior to becoming Australia's Ambassador to Cambodia, she also served abroad in Warsaw, Berlin, Bonn, Hanoi and Vienna, as well as in various senior positions in Australia...
Born in Transylvania, Herta has spent her adult life in the US and the UK. She has an impressive track record in the finance industry and together with her partners, has just launched Ariya Capital Group, a fund management firm focusing on sustainable investments in Africa...
Dianne Gulyas runs DuPont's largest business unit – a US$7 billion operation, with a 7,500-strong global team. It's no wonder that Fortune magazine named her as one of their 50 Most Powerful Women. She attributes her accelerated success to working abroad...
Paula Lucas American Domestic Violence Crisis Line July 2008
Paula lived what looked like an ideal life in the UAE: A Newsweek photojournalist husband, worldwide travel, a successful business and beautiful sons. But in reality, she was trapped by domestic violence. Finally her chance to escape materialized, thanks to a thief...
In 2001, Fortune Magazine crowned Anna Catalano as one of the most powerful women in international business. At the time, she was in London serving as a Group Vice President, Marketing, for BP. These days, Anna serves on several high-profile Boards...
Lyndall is currently Australia's Ambassador to Lebanon. Before joining the Australian foreign service, Lyndall worked for the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in London, Goma (formerly Zaire) and Belgrade.
Stacie Nevadomski Berdan is a real success story of working abroad. She went from a vice president position at Burson-Marstellar, one of the world’s leading public relations firms, to global managing director after a three-year stint in Asia. She then worked in-house for Unilever, before co-writing ‘Get Ahead By Going Abroad’ and now establishing herself as a successful author, speaker and consultant.
Sharyn Minahan Ambassador to Denmark, Norway and Iceland March 2008
Sharyn is Australia's current Ambassador to Denmark, Norway and Iceland. Prior to Denmark, she served in Buenos Aires (1995-96), Madrid (1988-92), Paris (1981-85), Santiago de Chile, Mexico City and in Canberra, Australia.
Amy Smilovic started Tibi in 1997 when her husband was transferred to Hong Kong. She had a choice-- report to her husband at American Express or start her own business. She chose the latter! Tibi fashions are now found in over 200 specialty stores and upscale department stores around the world.
Gail Elliott's first expat experience as a model in Japan, strutting the global catwalks for famous designers and gracing magazine covers such as Vogue, Bazaar and Elle. She considers Cindy Crawford, Elle Macpherson and Helena Christensen her good friends. And now she's busy with her own fashion label...
Glenda Stone Founder and CEO of Aurora December 2007
Glenda Stone is a shining example of a successful expat woman who created a profitable women-focused business abroad. Glenda won BusinessWeek's Business Vision Award in 2004, was awarded Pioneer of the Nation by HM the Queen in 2003 and won European Businesswoman of the Year in 2002.
Jo Parfitt Journalist, Author and Publisher November 2007
Jo Parfitt is a successful journalist and author. She has written more than 20 books on subjects ranging from careers, through computers to cookery, helps others to achieve their publishing dreams, is founder of The Book Cooks, speaks at conferences about life on the Expat Rollercoaster, owns her own publishing company (Summertime Publishing) and is in charge of publishing for the Outpost Archive
Kathleen van der Wilk-Carlton is the director of Permits Foundation, a non-profit corporate initiative to persuade governments to relax work permit regulations for expatriate partners. Her interest in dual career support grew from 1995 when she set up the Shell Group's....
Nancy Reisig Corporate Expat
Chennai, India September 2007
Nancy Reisig is currently the Vice President, Human Resources, for Ford in Chennai, India. She took this position in 2005, after years of dedication to Ford and Auto Alliance International. Earlier in her career, she was the first woman to manage a U.S. state trade office in Japan.
Katherine Song Expat / Repat & President of EPWS Shanghai August 2007
Katherine Song is the Project Manager and Site Leader of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Airplane Programs in Shanghai. Prior to this assignment, Katherine has worked in various positions in Boeing in Seattle WA, supporting functions across Finance, Sales & Marketing, Engineering and Supply Chain Management.
Kristin Engvig is the networking genius behind W.I.N. (Women's International Networking) - the group that has brought together more than 4,000 professionals from 70 countries since it was established in 1998, when Norwegian... Read more...
Virginia Anderson and her husband Chris, arrived in Australia from New Zealand in 1991, with a AU$1400 loan and the dream of a better life abroad. Today, the couple are worth AU$35 million and are... Read more...
Andrea Bruce has been a photojournalist with the Washington Post since 2001. Andrea lived in Iraq for 18 months and has traveled in Kashmir, Pakistan, Iraq, and Beirut (among other places) doing was she does best, taking pictures ...
