The metamorphosis man

Nathan North, ‘Eurobuild CEE’: You’re from Kenya originally. How did you end up in Poland in the job you have today? Richard Aboo, EMEA office agency chair, Cushman & Wakefield: I was one of the lucky few to receive a Kenyan government scholarship to study in Poland. I say lucky now, but frankly I didn’t think so then. It was my father who initially recommended that I consider Poland as a place of study at the time. Having travelled a few times to this part of the world he was able to see the “sea of change” that was coming – that a transformation was about to take place in the country and the region as a whole. Of course, at the time I was too young and ignorant to appreciate this and all I saw was a dark, grey and depressed nation… and I even had the feeling he was trying to get rid of me! You later finished your MSc in economics at the Warsaw School of Economics and you’re now listed on its website as an eminent alumnus. W