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Born in the UK Jonathan attended Hertford college, Oxford, where he read physics. He went on to a career in oil trading for around 25 years in London, Geneva, Houston and New York. Unfortunately this career played havoc with his depression and anxiety and he suffered much upheaval and a devastating betrayal. He also suffered through two tough marriages but has four children who he credits for his still being alive today. Jonathan loves travel, books, movies, soccer, rugby and of course his children.

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Swiss Newspaper Article

I'm excited to say the major Swiss paper, Le Temps, carried an article about certain oil trading aspects from my book:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lete...

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Depression, Oil Trading & A Mind At War With Itself

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Jonathan Ford said: " A truly fascinating yet heart-breaking memoir that reads like a novel. Jonathan sets the stage for his mental make-up throughout his childhood in the UK and College years at Oxford, sprinkled with some very interesting and often amusing anecdotes. On ...more "

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Jonathan’s Quotes

“I am Not young enough to know everything”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“Churchill conveying a message to the lord privy seal "tell his lordship I am sealed in the privy and can only deal with one shit at a time”
― Winston Churchill

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“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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