A confirmed “workafrolic”, Bill dives right into everything he does. If you need proof ask him about his scuba diving license. Bill’s played old-timers basketball against former Olympians, “for keeps”, he’s practiced the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira and danced through Rio’s “sambadrome” with a winning Samba School in the annual Carnaval competition.

A native Californian, Bill lived much of his adult life in Brazil, working mostly as a foreign correspondent for publications like the Financial Times and Business Week, but also as an art critic for ARTnews magazine.

Bill served a stint as president of the São Paulo Foreign Correspondents Club. When he left Brazil, a local publication dubbed him “the most Brazilian of foreign correspondents, both for his relaxed personality and for his proficiency in Portuguese.” As a newcomer to France, Bill can’t yet claim the same proficiency in French, but he’s working on it while diving into French culture. Among other things, he’s fascinated by the Oulipo experimental literature movement.

Given his workafrolic instincts, Bill has followed his passion to gigs in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Jordan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United States, Uruguay and India.

What else? Bill is the founding editor of the award-winning online travel guide BrazilMax and host of BrazilMax Radio. He works as a communications consultant for organizations like the World Economic Forum, the United Nation’s International Trade Center and the World Wildlife Fund. He is the former director of communications and external relations for the World Water Council, an elector in National Geographic's Destination Stewardship Survey and a member of the editorial board of Mercado Ético (Ethical Markets), a multimedia project about sustainable development in Brazil.