Independent researcher, studying the evolution of culture, traditional weaving and looms, ceramics, arts of East and Southeast Asia, ethnography of Papua and the Pacific region
Educated at Balliol College and Wolfson College (PhD), Oxford.
Lived in Japan 1994-95, lived in China and Hong Kong 1995-2015
Member of the Common Room at Wolfson College, Oxford
Researcher at Tracing Patterns Foundation, Berkeley, CA