David Starkie

David Starkie is a retired Productivity and Performance improvement adviser from the United Kingdom with multi-industry experience in different cultures and countries. He is also noted as a Hispanic scholar, fluent Romani speaker, musician, travel writer, theatre director, and part-time diplomat who associated with figures of the Irish Literary Revival. Starkie and his wife returned to Madrid upon retirement, where they died within six months of one another in 1976/77.