In Search of Davos Man Peter Gumbel
1 William Browder was born in Princeton, New Jersey, grew up in Chicago，and studied at Stanford University in California. But don’t call him an American. For the past 16 of his 40 years he has lived outside the U.S., first in London and then, from 1996, in Moscow, where he runs his own investment firm. Browder now manages $ 1.6 billion in assets. In 1998 he gave up his American passport to become a British citizen, since his life is now centered in Europe. “National identity makes no difference for me,”he says. “I feel completely international. If you have four good friends and you like what you are doing, it doesn’t matter where you are. That’s globalization.”
威廉?布劳德在新泽西州的普林斯顿出生，成长于芝加哥，就读于加利福尼亚州的斯坦福大学。但别称其为美国人。他今年40岁了，过去的16年来一直没在美国生活，最初是在伦敦，1996年后在莫斯科经营自己的投资公司。布劳德如今掌管的资产价值是16亿美元。1998年，他放弃美国护照，成为一名英国公民，因为欧洲是他现在的生活中心。“国家认同对我来说无所谓，”他说，“我觉得自己完全是个国际人。如果你有四个好朋友，而且你又喜欢自己所做的事情，那么你在哪儿都无关紧要。那就是全球化。”
2 Alex Mandl is also a fervent believer in globalization, but he views himself very differently. A former president of AT & T, Mandl, 61, was born in Austria and now runs a French technology company, which is doing more and more business in China. He reckons he spends about 90% of his time traveling