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About expat blog

Who else than an expatriate can help another expatriate?

The project

Expat blog is a project held by expatriates, for expatriates.

Our ambition is to help people who want to live abroad, wherever in the world they are, and wherever they would like to live.

The main idea is to make expatriates share their experience. Everybody can participate!

The team

Julien Faliu

Julien Faliu

Founder

Living abroad since 2003

After graduating in softwares engineering and business management, Julien has been working in online business for more than 10 years now. His career led him to move to Great-Britain, Spain and France where he worked on significant projects. His years abroad broadened his horizon and he started working on an expat blog directory, which he later turned into a rich, helpful and user-friendly website made by expatriates for expatriates : expat-blog.com.
Julien launched the expat-blog project in 2005. He is currently living in Mauritius Island.

Olivier Lebert

Olivier Lebert

Co-founder

Living abroad since 2002

Olivier studied History and political sciences, but he fully reached his potential in communication and online business. After his years as head of an e-commerce website in Paris, Olivier moved to Canada where he's been living for more than 6 years now.
Thanks to his communication skills, he launched his own blog in 2003 which rapidly got famous on the french blogosphere. Also known as Olivier de Montreal, Olivier travels a lot around the world. He is currently working in Montreal.

Benjamin Malassingne

Benjamin Malassingne

Graphic Designer

Living abroad since 2008

Benjamin has been working in graphic design studios for 8 years after earning his diploma in applied arts and visual communication in Paris. Curious about everything, he managed to master all graphic supports, including printed materials and sophisticated softwares. Benjamin joined the team in 2008. He's currently living in Montreal.

Hervé Raimondo

Hervé Raimondo

Linguistic Revisor

Living abroad since 2007

Hervé graduated with a M.A. in British history but his passion has always been Scandinavia. He fluently speaks 5 languages, including norwegian, and is currently working for a translation services company in Canada. He immediately offered his language skills to Expat-blog.
Hervé currently lives in Montreal but is soon leaving for a new place. What about Norway?

Jo Ann von Haff

Jo Ann v.

Community manager

Living abroad most of her life

Jo Ann was born in Angola, Southern Africa, but she celebrated her first birthday in La Havana, Cuba, where she lived four years. She went back to Angola and for the next 12 years, she lived between Angola and Portugal (mostly due to the civil war in her homeland). She went to the French High School in South Africa before heading to France where she lives since 2001 (a dream come true, really). Her life is made of travels, by plane or train (though she prefers the plane by far) and couldn't imagine it without discovering new places and cultures and languages.