SITA Paris was locatred at 112 avenue CHarles De Gaulle since 1968. In March 2023, SITA is moving to a new buiulding (see https://www.carre-suffren-paris.com/) in the 15 th district of Paris.
On this occasion, a (hybrid) Town Hall event has been organized on 09 March 2023. Here is the presentation which I have prepared for this celebration.

Coming from Indochina I had been appointed Manager for Thailand on the 1st of February
1964 and one of my first jobs at Bangkok was the recruitment of Khun Salak with whom,
although I did not expect it at that time, I was going to work closely with for more than three
decades expanding our organization all over the Far East and Pacific area.
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Many of us know that SITA has inspired the creation of SWIFT, the bylaws of which were a copy of those of SITA, which resulted in some turmoil for SITA. WE can see that strangely this poroximity between the two organizations continue, as in this article from The Economist about SWIFT facing pressure to disconnect Russians banks as part of economic…[Read more]

The first time I went to Tibet the country was already in a transition period
and in full effervescence, the people were handling the move towards a
more modern world. Since that time, like in the whole Far East, the
changes have been tremendous.

List of Wikisita members as of 13 April 2021

Dear Friends,
The Falklands war between Argentina and UK had sparked my interest in this region. .
I am pleased to share with you the movie made during my trip there.