Hi! I’m Oliver Dowson. Thanks for stopping by.

This is my personal website

As well as what you’ll find here, I’ve written many other business-related articles to help other companies expand internationally – my specialist subject – and you’ll find those on https://www.growinternational.org together with all the podcasts that I host there.

Articles that I write that aren’t directly relevant to international expansion and that I hope others will enjoy reading are on my opinions page.

I’m proud to say that my first book, There’s no Business like International Business, was published in March 2022 – more details here.

I also post some thoughts on the many countries I’ve been lucky enough to visit – click on travels – and some of the recipes I enjoy cooking. Believe it or not, I meet people who actually ask me to write these things down. If you find anything interesting here, great, I will be happy. If you think it’s just a silly old man playing with a website and deceiving himself that anyone will care, well you probably got that right!

A little more about me

Following a long business career building and managing companies in many countries around the world, I’m now a writer and podcast host. My first book, a travelogue “There’s no business like International Business” is published in Spring 2022, and my second, a novel, “The Repurposed Spy” is coming in early 2023.

I’m so lucky to have travelled extensively in over 140 countries, both for pleasure and business.

I was born in Lowestoft, the most easterly town in England, but moved to London when I went to university and have lived there since. I studied Mathematics at Imperial College, then had a variety of jobs through my 20s, with a common theme of international business. In the early 80s I co-founded EnTech, an energy management consultancy, and over then next 30 years developed that business into a small multi-national with offices in ten countries.

Now semi-retired, I provide some pro-bono support to young upcoming business people that I can relate to and who are prepared to tolerate me, write articles on topics that interest me and that I think I know something about, host the Grow through International Expansion podcast series and relax through cooking and travelling.

Married with one son, and, so far, two granddaughters, I live between London and Oviedo Spain when I’m not travelling further afield!

If you’d like to know more about me, check out my bio on LinkedIn, and if you’d like to write to me or have a chat, check my contact page – I’d love to hear from you