Christopher Gillibrand is a son of a trade union leader, graduate in chemistry from Oxford and MBA from Greenwich; Christopher worked for ten years in Brussels. He now works as a translator and lecturer. He also have an MBA from the University of Greenwich. He traveled in Europe, he lived for ten years in Brussels and have direct experience of the EU at work- during this time detected no trace of democracy and became convinced that the idea of "British influence" was a complete myth. By profession, he is a translator, running my own small business- speaking French and German, having a working knowledge of 3 more languages and I will add Welsh as quickly as possible to my French and German.