Before his recent retirement, Dr Jonathan Swift was a Senior Lecturer in International Business & Marketing at Salford Business School, the University of Salford, Manchester. He has also taught at the Manchester Business School, on the Executive MBA programme, and has been involved in socio-linguistic pre-departure training for personnel from major companies who were to go to Latin America to take up positions there. Jonathan has written a number of books: the two most recent being Brexit KBO (2018) published by Cambridge Academic, Cambridge, and Understanding Business in the Global Economy: A Multi-Level Relationship Approach (2017) Macmillan Publishers, London. He has just completed another book entitled: The South American Pacific War: Nationalism, Nitrates, Gunboats and Guano, which deals with the war between and the Peruvian-Bolivian Alliance (1879-1884). His main research interests include foreign languages, culture, military history, and all things dealing with Latin America. He has lived and worked in a number of countries: Brazil, Colombia, Italy, and Mexico, and speaks Spanish.
