Contributing editor at The Observer
oxford, england, united kingdom
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Claim your profileAuthor of LION CITY: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia.Previously a correspondent for the FT in Singapore and Berlin. Before joining the FT I spent 12 years at The Guardian, including spells as east Africa correspondent and education editor. As education editor I published an award-winning behind-the-scenes account of the undergraduate admissions process at Cambridge university. As The Guardian's east Africa correspondent, I reported on the war in Darfur and a food security crisis in Niger.






Bachelor Of Arts, English Literature at The University Of ManchesterGraduated: 1994