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PhiliP Cooper

Philip was born and educated in the United Kingdom. He joined Citibank in London before moving to Athens where he worked as a foreign exchange trader for both Citibank and Chase Manhattan. He was then posted to Citibank's Middle East North African Training Centre in Athens/Beirut as the operations manager and a foreign exchange trainer.

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He was appointed Head of Learning and Education for UBS in North America. He later left the bank and went into partnership with two colleagues and set up a successful financial training company (New Learning Developments) in New York City.

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In 1999 he returned to London where he worked as a training consultant to financial services institutions and the Ministry of Defence until 2003 when he moved to Greece to work on developing knowledge databases for on-line brokerage houses and conduct webinars on foreign exchange and on-line retail trading.

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In 2012 he returned to the UK to write. To date, he has written several fictional short stories, an erotic romance titled Remembering Jounieh, a science fiction story titled The Old Woman of Mani, a poetry anthology titled If I Could Paint Your Picture and a children's short story titled Sparky The Baby Green Dragon. He has also had published through a New York publishing house www.businessexpertpress.com two non-fiction books, Mastering Options and Competing In The Financial Markets both on value investing in currencies and options.

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He has just published his third novel, a fast-paced hybrid political/science fiction thriller titled The Aegean Enigma. This novel, the third in the Alex Kalfas thriller series is again set in Greece, and pulls on historical facts and myth to weave an exciting suspense story. about drug cartels and a 2,500-year-old secret. Philip's first two Alex Kalfas novels Rape of the Aegean and Smokescreen are highlighted within this site.​

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Philip's hobbies include movies, playing tennis, reading, travel Greece, flying single-engine planes, and quizzing.