FROM ECONOMIA MAGAZINE, MAY 2012: http://economia.icaew.com/People/May-spotlight-Sunil-Shah our latest monthly Spotlight, ICAEW member Sunil Shah recounts the journey from accountancy, to investing, to novel writing No four-year old plays "Accountant" when he’s pretending to be an adult with his friends. I certainly didn’t. No, for me it was "Pilot" - that was my fantasy as a toddler in the dusty streets of Nairobi. Nearly two decades later I was showing my graduation certificate (from The London School of Economics, a BSc in Economics) to any investment bank that might listen. You must understand the era, no colleague with any street cred would condescend to accountancy: "Are you crazy? Haven’t you seen Michael Douglas in Wall Street?" Alas, fluent Swahili and Gujarati weren’t quite the linguistic repertoire they were looking for, and with my head bowed low I entered the graduate intake of KPMG in London.