About the Author

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Mother of six and grandmother of fourteen, ANNA ECKHOFF did a one-eighty at the age of fifty-six. She hung up her career as an IT project manager to start a new as the head of administration on the world's frontlines. Through her new career in humanitarian hotspots, she worked within accounting, personnel, procurement, logistics, and IT. She returned to Denmark at the age of seventy-one, and a few years later published her story in the book A New Beginning: Life on the Frontlines in Danish and English. Since the publication, Anna has given almost 100 lectures on her life and on various Middle Eastern themes at home and abroad.