How one high school football star, economics major, ex-IT manager, Red Sox fan, proponent of a "no-jerks" policy, and kids' baseball coach has risen to the top of international banking
This issue of Colby is all over the map—literally.
We talked to Bob Diamond ’73 at his office at Barclays Capital in London and joined a group of fresh first-years as they walked the cobblestone streets of Dijon, France. There’s news of Army Specialist Abe Rogers ’95 from the battlefields of Afghanistan, while lawyer Caroline Riss ’03 gave us her take on the ongoing political tug of war in Nigeria—from her new assignment in Ukraine. Teacher Francis Chapuredima ’06—by phone from Kenya, just before he left for Zimbabwe and South... Read more »
Contributors
Bob Keyes
BOB KEYES (“Defining Art,”) writes about the arts in Maine for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He began his career at the Central Maine Morning Sentinel in 1985 and has worked for newspapers in Greenwich, Conn., and Sioux Falls, S.D. He lives in South Portland.
Caroline Riss '03
CAROLINE RISS ’03 (“Oil and Religion: Threats to a New Democracy,”), an attorney, has worked in Washington D.C. with a Nigerian human rights expert on women’s rights under the sharia legal system. Riss currently is working in Ukraine as an intern and attorney for the American Bar Association–Rule of Law Initiative in Kiev focusing on anti-corruption, legal-education reform, human trafficking, and law-enforcement reform.
Allen Lessels P'08
ALLEN LESSELS P’08 (“With the Program,”) covers University of New Hampshire athletics for the Union Leader and is the author of Live Free, Drive Fast: Behind the Scenes at New Hampshire International Speedway. Lessels also writes for various other publications.
