Mauritius is a small island nation in the Indian Ocean that has built one of Africa's most prosperous and internationally integrated economies from a base of sugar production into a sophisticated services economy anchored by financial services, tourism, and an increasingly significant technology and business process outsourcing sector. For senior professionals with 10 or more years of experience, Mauritius offers a distinctive combination: a well-governed, English and French bilingual professional environment with African Union membership and African Development Bank membership that facilitates pan-African business, a favorable tax regime that has made Port Louis a significant African financial center, and a quality of life defined by tropical climate, Indian Ocean geography, and a multicultural society that has been politically stable for decades. The country's population of approximately 1.3 million is small but the professional community is internationally oriented far beyond what its size would suggest.