Expat Enclave Paul Miazga

Gustav Hultgren seems born for entrepreneurship. A former banker and finance specialist from Sweden, Gustav has consistently found ways to re-invent himself professionally while also seeking out new horizons: he’s lived in the UK, Belgium, Germany, Ukraine, Switzerland and now, most recently, Spain, where his wife runs a property booking service and he a fund that invests in non-performing loans. Through it all, he’s cultivated great working relationships and a love for the finer points of the many cultures he has experienced, including how to make green borshch. Next on his to-do list? Learning to surf.

Social entrepreneur and management consultant Clara Peron founded her own sustainability consultancy Value for Good in Berlin. Her journey has taken her across the globe with the result being the realization of a childhood dream: giving back to a world that she feels has given her so much. 

Passionate yet balanced, but driven to push his limits at every opportunity, Andreas is the kind of person you'd expect to be Head of Creative Services for Google in Russia. Speaking from Moscow, this fitness fanatic and one-time actor talks about finding his sweet spot in the advertising industry and in life. 

From the streets of his youth in the former Soviet Union and Israel to the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, and beyond, co-founder Toly Mezhov of project management firm Future Cities has embarked on a career of reimagining big things and turning the local hospitality industry on its head wherever he goes. 

Paintings Conservator Abbie Vandivere has lived in four countries across two continents and worked closely with some of Europe's most priceless works of art  at the Mauritshuis in the Netherlands , mos famously including Johannes Vermeer's "The Girl with the Pearl Earring". This Amsterdam resident talks about her unique background, the ins and outs of her professional work, and life in her adopted country.