A contemporary post 9/11
geopolitical "Manifesto" for constructive change.
How Americans can re-orient and clean up their act to
survive, thrive and continue to guide in the 21st century.
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About the Author
Peter
Geoffrey de Krassel has been professionally
involved in representing American and Chinese
corporate business interests in their efforts to
bridge the gap between Eastern and Western
cultures. He has been a resident of Hong Kong,
Manila and Shanghai since 1989.
He was married to
a Shanghainese-born wife with whom he has a son
born in Hong Kong. He lived with his first
American-born wife in Los Angeles with their
grown children before moving to Asia.
As chief executive officer of a strategic
consultancy, he has traveled extensively
throughout Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the
Americas.
He is the founder of trade publications focused
on the cable and satellite business. He has also
published and edited numerous articles on the
media in Asia.
His adolescence was spent traveling to areas of
international conflict with his father David de
Krassel, who was a correspondent with the BBC.
His formal education took place mainly in
Switzerland, Cyprus and Israel. After traveling
to New York aboard the liner "Peace" in 1964, de
Krassel attended CCNY and worked as a
photographer before moving to the West Coast
where he studied political science.
An honors graduate from the California State
University system in comparative governments of
the Middle East and Sino-Soviet Communism in
1968, he worked as a photographer at the
Democratic National Convention that year in
Chicago where he started law school before
moving to San Francisco where he completed his
law degree with honors in 1971.
He practiced law with a top national firm
specializing in banking and secured
transactions, and became involved with partisan
politics and fund-raising on a national level
before concentrating on international business
and political expediting with his own firm
Counselors At Large.
He resigned as the firm's CEO in 1998 to spend
more time with his family and to explore the
meaning of relationships and life.
Peter
Geoffrey de Krassel has been professionally
involved in representing American and Chinese
corporate business interests in their efforts to
bridge the gap between Eastern and Western
cultures. He has been a resident of Hong Kong,
Manila and Shanghai since 1989.