When we enter Pascale Quester’s living room through the lens of her laptop camera, we find her surrounded by boxes. She has just moved from Adelaide in Australia to start a new role as vice-chancellor of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.

For Delphine Francois, a career path is something you carve out for yourself, with no fear of the par-for-the-course twists and turns, nor forgetting that the finish lines are merely stages along the way. This is how a young Parisian came to wind up in Cleveland, Ohio, after studying in Nantes, and travel the world, living in some sixteen cities in five different countries.