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Biography:
Steen Marcussen was born in 1938 in Copenhagen into a family of scientists and researchers. After leaving school he studied music (opera) at the Royal Danish Music Conservatory.
Afterwards, he decided to pursue a commercial career and completed his studies at Copenhagen Commercial College, joined Ford Motor Company and left Denmark at 24. He worked 11 years in Africa where he explored the jungle, ran into cannibal parties, witnessed riots, and was presented with a corpulent daughter of a native chief. Never saying no to a challenge his true-life stories are often dramatic, however always with a tinge of humour describing some fascinating sides of post-colonial life in Africa.
Since 1977 He has been an independent businessman. Being concerned for the environment, he has worked on finding green solutions to a number of environmental problems within public health (suppression of insect vectors in tropical diseases) as well as bio-projects aimed at improving crop yields and animal welfare.
He is married to a French lady and lives in a forest inside a protected nature park in the south of France. Steen was the honourable Danish Consul in Guernsey for 10 years and decorated with the Knights Order.
He is now writing two more books, one with a futuristic perspective of man’s survival after an all out atomic war has ravaged our present civilisation. The other, is a critical view of the modern state and its tax system and the alternatives.