Conversations
The Beyond Home conversations programme: long-form interviews, in preparation, with people building careers, companies and capital beyond the countries they first called home.
Beyond Home
Episode in production
Lead conversation · No. 01 · Episode in production
Former managing director, correspondent banking. United Kingdom.
A conversation on the settlement chain behind a remittance: where a transfer loses its value between a European high street and a branch in West Africa, and why the true cost is rarely the headline fee.
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Beyond Home
Episode in production
No. 01 · Capital
Former managing director, correspondent banking
United Kingdom
A conversation on the settlement chain behind a remittance: where a transfer loses its value between a European high street and a branch in West Africa, and why the true cost is rarely the headline fee.
Episode in production
Beyond Home
Episode in production
No. 02 · Entrepreneurship
Founder of a licensed cross-border payments business
Western Europe
A conversation on founding a regulated payments business in Europe for a market you left as a teenager: operating at a distance, licensing where you live, and the discipline of not romanticising home.
Episode in production
Beyond Home
Episode in production
No. 03 · Science & Health
Consultant surgeon in a public health service
United Kingdom
A conversation on training abroad, sending expertise rather than money, and the uncomfortable arithmetic of medical migration for the health systems that clinicians leave behind.
Episode in production
Beyond Home
Episode in production
No. 04 · Capital
Project finance director, energy and infrastructure
Continental Europe
A conversation on long-dated capital: why it is scarce for African infrastructure, what an institutional committee actually needs to see, and how the exit question outweighs the return question.
Episode in production
Beyond Home
Episode in production
No. 05 · Policy
Development economist and public policy adviser
Continental Europe
A conversation on why national diaspora strategies rarely survive contact with administration, and what would have to change for engagement to become an operating function rather than a document.
Episode in production
Beyond Home
Episode in production
No. 06 · Science & Health
Postdoctoral researcher, materials science
Continental Europe
A conversation on visas, laboratory access and the quiet architecture of scientific collaboration — and whether the next generation of researchers will need to leave at all.
Episode in production
Contributors are described by role only. No conversation on this page refers to a named individual, and no interview has been recorded or published.
