One Life

Name: Ralf Lissek.

Title: Executive Director of the German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

School: Business School, Wuppertal, Germany.

College: Bergische University, Wuppertal, Germany, and Aston Management Centre, Birmingham, UK.

Marital status: Single.

Home: Ballsbridge, Dublin.

Most important life event: Getting a taxi from St Stephen's Green on Friday nights.

Biggest business break: Spearheading the German-Irish Chamber's development as a successful self-financing consultancy.

Biggest business mistake: Not availing of the opportunity to buy our Fitzwilliam Square premises 10 years ago.

Time of getting up: 7.30 a.m.

Time of finishing work: 67 p.m.

Favourite breakfast: Coffee and newspapers.

Form of exercise: Soccer, tennis, hillwalking, sailing, golf, dozing.

Favourite TV programme: Don't have a TV.

Favourite radio programme: Morning Ireland.

Commuting time: 15 minutes (on shank's mare).

Favourite airline: Lufthansa.

Worst thing about travel: Checking in at gates 82-84, Terminal 1, London Heathrow.

Favourite pub: The Purty Kitchen, Old Dunleary Road, after a day's sailing.

Favourite restaurant: Stephen's Green Club (for lunch), The Schoolhouse (for dinner), Le Cave, Grand Place, Brussels (any time).

How do you spend your free time: Smiling.

Person you admire most: My housekeeper.

Dying words: "Now is always the right time." (Curtis Mayfield.)