Ronald McGill

I was born in Berlin, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), just after World War II, of Scottish and German parents. I moved to Edinburgh when I was six, when my parents divorced, being brought up by my father. I never saw my mother again. I ran away when I was seventeen, joining the British Army. After Aden, I left “to get an education”. I worked in town planning in the UK before breaking into international development, mainly in Africa and with the UN in New York City. I have published two technical books and twenty-four journal papers. My first non-technical book was Three Royal Terrace. The Expatriate is the second and last.