I am a Belgian engineer, living and working since 1993 in Colombia.

My first job was in Nicaragua, and when I arrived in December, coming from a snowy Belgium, being welcomed by palm trees weaving in the wind, I felt I found my destiny.  After this job, I worked three years in Belgium, as a project engineer in a waste water treatment company, where I also ended up as a delegate for the syndicate.  Then I got a job opportunity as a coordinator for a postgraduate in Colombia, set up by the Universities of Leuven and Ghent, and was very glad to be able to return to the tropics again.  This time I stayed for good.  When this contract came to its end, I began working as an independent engineer in the design and construction of waste water treatment plants.

To maintain my body in good shape I like swimming and exercising (pilates).  I also like to do a yoga session once a week.  I switched to a vegetarian diet four years ago, and grow some organic vegetables in my kitchen-garden, fertilized with my own compost.

Reading and writing are my favorite pastimes.  Since the Berlin wall fell down in 1989, and Fukuyama considered this event as The end of history and the last man,  I have been anxious to look for an alternative.  Is there any alternative ?  Not one I could find in any literature.  I felt obliged to think on this.  I am a follower - so to speak - of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Maurice Godelier, who both understood the task of antropology as showing how  "primitive" cultures functioned, in order to be able to reflect upon and criticize the actual state of affairs in our so called "advanced" culture.  I undertook a thorough study of man and mankind, in order to be able to better understand the essence of both concepts.  The insights I gathered made me imagine how a new culture could arise, on the basis of a new value system, a humanistic ethics.  I am preparing a book on this quest : Beyond Capitalism - Appeal for a Humanistic Society.  A major part of my book is dedicated to the transformation of the actual capitalist society into a humanistic society, and how this would transform education, science, economics and politics.  I do not consider this new society as an utopia, an impossible place to find, but as an eutopia - a world where it is good living.

I might be a dreamer, but I am sure I am not the only one...