After a first career in international health organizations and aid agencies, and a second career in academia in Europe and Asia, I.M. Manava has retired to golf, grandchildren, gardening, guest lectures and a gorgeous armchair from which she muses on the perplexities of peoplekind. Educated at Erasmus University and Oxford University, she hopes to learn more along the road of life. She’s currently writing a book on the vagaries of geopolitics, tentatively titled It’s Complicated.