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In Search of Davos Man Peter Gumbel 1 William Browder was born in Princeton, New Jersey, grew up in Chicago，and studied at Stanford University in California. But don’t call him an American. For the past 16 of his 40 years he has lived outside the U.S., first in London and then, from 1996, in Moscow, where he runs his own investment firm. Browder now manages $ 1.6 billion in assets. In 1998 he gave up his American passport to become a British citizen, since his life is now centered in Europe. “National identity makes no difference for me,” he says. “I feel completely international. If you have four good friends and you like what you are doing, it doesn’t matter where you are. That’s globalization.” 威廉?布劳德在新泽西州的普林斯顿出生，成长于芝加哥，就读于加利福尼亚州的斯坦福大学。但别称其为美国人。他今年40岁了，过去的16年来一直没在美国生活，最初是在伦敦，1996年后在莫斯科经营自己的投资公司。布劳德如今掌管的资产价值是16亿美元。1998年，他放弃美国护照，成为一名英国公民，因为欧洲是他现在的生活中心。“国家认同对我来说无所谓，”他说，“我觉得自己完全是个国际人。如果你有四个好朋友，而且你又喜欢自己所做的事情，那么你在哪儿都无关紧要。那就是全球化。” 2 Alex Mandl is also a fervent believer in globalization, but he views himself very differently. A former president of AT T, Mandl, 61, was born in Austria and now runs a French technology company, which is doing more and more business in China. He reckons he spends about 90% of his time traveling on business. But despite all that globetrotting, Mandl who has been a U.S. citizen for 45 years still identifies himself as an American. “I see myself as American without any hesitation. The fact that I spend a lot of time in other places doesn’t change that,” he says. 亚历克斯?曼德尔也是全球化的狂热信奉者，但他对于自己的看法与布劳德截然不同。61岁的曼德尔曾任美国电话电报公司总裁。他出生于奥地利，现在经营着一家法国技术公司，该公司在中国的业务正迅速增加。他估计自己90%左右的时间花在了出差上。尽管曼德尔全球到处跑，已经做了45年美国公民的他仍然认为自己是个美国人。“我毫不犹豫地把自己当做美国人。虽然我在其他地方度过很多时间，但是并不能改变我是美国人的事实，”他说。 3 Although Browder and Mandl define their nationality differently, both see their identity as a matter of personal choice, not an accident of birth. And not incidentally, both are Davos Men, members of the international business elite who trek each year to the Swiss Alpine town for the