I was born in Müstair, Grisons, where Romansh is spoken, and where I lived my youth. I grew up bilingual Romansh and German. After that, I lived in: Zurich, Croydon/England, Oviedo + Palma de Mallorca, Spain and finally I'm living in French-speaking Switzerland. In the last part of my professional life, I've worked internationally in the field of business relations and business match-making between Swiss firms and entities in Asia (India, Indonesia and mainly China). I've even worked some 7 years on behalf of the Swiss government, the former Federal Office of Foreign Economic Affairs FOFEA, now called SECO.