Guido Deboeck started his career as a health economist in the World Health Organization, worked on monitoring and evaluation of rural development projects around the world, and eventually became an advisor and manager of investment technology at the World Bank. He published several articles and books including Visual Explorations in Finance: using self-organizing maps (1998); and Trading on the Edge: Neural, Genetic and Fuzzy Systems for Chaotic Financial Markets (1994). His formal education included a Ph.D and M.A. in economics from Clark University, MA, and a License-Doctorandus degree in economics from the Catholic University in Leuven (KUL, Belgium). His interest in genetic genealogy dates back to 2005 when he launched the Flanders-Flemish DNA project. Based on it he recently published Flemish DNA & Ancestry: History of three families over five centuries using conventional and genetic genealogy (2007). Beside genealogy his interests include investing, wine tasting, beer brewing, cooking, and photography. He is also the Editor of the investment section on Bella On-line, the women’s voice on the Internet (www.bellaonline.com/investing).

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