Rodney Crisp is an international insurance and risk management consultant, based in Paris. For many years he was the international director of continental Europe’s leading insurance broking group, Gras Savoye, prior to creating the international subsidiary of the Joliez Regol insurance broking group quoted on the Paris Stock Exchange. Rodney was born in Cairns and raised in Dalby on the Darling Downs where his family has been established for well over a century and which he still considers as home. He writes in order to understand.