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[edit] David Conway / Smerus
57 years old, British, born in London, married, piano player, three children, two grandchildren, general dilettante.
Graduated from King's College,Cambridge University in 1971: BA in economics and natural sciences (psychology). MA Cambridge (for those who don't know, this is a sort of English joke) 1975.
Married (by Louis Jacobs), to Nadia, who was born in Prague but was brought up in Slovakia. We now own a mediaeval house in Levoca, Slovakia, which we are gradually restoring.
Both Nadia and myself were (for too many years) elected local government councillors for a London borough, for the Conservative party which we both support. Nadia was Mayor there in 1993-4, almost certainly the first Conservative mayor in the UK to have been a past president of the Slovak Communist Youth Movement.
My employment history has included the London Stock Exchange, the textile industry, and management consultancy.
I presently divide my life between researching a PhD in music history at University College London (specifically, on the entry of Jews to musical professions in the period 1780-1850), and working on development aid projects in the former Soviet Union on behalf of the European Commission and DFID. (Present projects based in Leningrad Oblast and Georgia).
In 1993-5 I was the first Englishman to live in Kaliningrad since the RAF bombed it to pieces in 1944 (when it was still Koenigsberg). From 1998-2000 I was based in Brussels, Belgium.
15 minutes of fame: in 2003 I was a member of the University College London University Challenge team. We got to the quarter-finals, but in the previous round we got the 11th highest score ever made in the programme.
15 minutes of non-entity: in 1992 I won the 'Brain of Enfield' competition.
I was an early contributor to the Find a Grave web-site. Over 2000 of my photos are still up on the site. I am gradually uploading those which are relevant to the appropriate articles in Wikipedia.
I am a Non-Executive Director of a National Health Service Primary Care Trust in London. Also a Lay Governor of Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication.
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