ROBERT STANLEY KOZAK

Eight years as a correspondent with Reuters in Ottawa and Mexico. Almost seventeen years as a bureau chief in South America for Dow Jones Newswires and then as well with the Wall Street Journal. Former World Bank consultant, and speechwriter at Global Affairs Canada. Other gigs have included working as a carpenter on a buildings and bridges crew for CN railway, as a freelancer in Montreal, and as a producer for CBC radio in Toronto.

Current writing: https://aboutnatsec.substack.com/

The company name – liberation – is a nod towards my father, William John “Bill” Kozak, a gunner with the 5th Armoured Division during the liberation of the Netherlands. He saw action in the Italian campaign, and entered into Germany in 1945.

And to my grandfather and namesake, Percy Stanley Shewell, a private with Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. He fought in the trenches in the First World War. The Patricias helped liberate parts of Belgium while units received honours for the pursuit into Mons for the armistice.