Roger John Cooper is an internationalist by background. He was born in Mexico City, educated in England and the USA; Lived in half a dozen countries; Speaks many languages and Worked principally throughout Latin America, but also in Europe & Asia. His university education includes Chemical Engineering at a Jesuit University in Mexico (in Spanish), Degrees in Physics and in Chemistry from San Diego, California and post graduate studies in Linguistic Anthropology from SUNY Albany where he specialized in the Maya Culture and its hieroglyphic texts. He is now retired from an international banking career with Citibank and J.P. Morgan Chase. For the last 10 years of his working life (partly based in the World Trade Center), he was responsible for Chase’s operations throughout the Western Hemisphere in the areas of Securities, Treasury, Derivatives, Capital Markets and Foreign Exchange. It afforded him the ability to live and work, with his wife Sandi, and two children – Robin and Alex – in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Venezuela before coming to New Jersey, Connecticut and now lives between New York City and Vermont.