About

This blog is by Christopher R Bennett who worked as a Civil Engineer for the World Bank in the transportation sector. I started it as a personal blog to catalog my experiences at the Bank–which is the best job in the world for any Civil Engineer. The final three posts have things that I couldn’t have written about while at the Bank!

Since I was 29 I’ve worked in every country from India east except Bangladesh and Bhutan. My World Bank work resulted in lots of travel to very interesting – and not so interesting – places.  I was based at the World Bank’s headquarters in Washington D.C. from 2003 where my main focus was Asia and the Caucasuses, and then Sydney Australia office from 2010 where I worked througout the Pacific Islands. I retired in 2021 after taking leave to deal with a traumatic brain injury from a crash while bicycle racing. Decided that it was time to do something else.

I am a former Ironman Triathlete and more recently have been doing ultra-enduracance bicycle races (these are discussed on my other blog and my web site www.lpcb.org . The latter also has all my technical publications and papers if you are a glutton for punishment.

My long-suffering wife Lis Pedersen is originally Danish. We met in New Zealand where she was my nurse in hospital. I may have got a bad knee, but that was a small price to pay for a wonderful wife. She is a self-appointed ambassador extolling the virtues of New Zealand to anyone who will listen.

Contacts:

Christopher R. Bennett
e-m: chris@lpcb.org
Phone: +64 27 846 2004
Fax: +1-270-294-6240 (eFax)