Writing & Research

Dr Andrew Forbes (UK) has been writing about Asian Affairs for more then 25 years, first as Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Aberdeen, and now as Editor of CPAmedia. He contributes regularly to the regional and international press, and is the author of more than 15 books on East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Caribbean. He has lived in Thailand for almost 20 years, travelling regularly thoughout Asia and beyond.

Best-selling travel, food and culture author, Joe has written more than 20 books and contributed to numerous international newspapers and magazines. Two times winner of the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Award, in 2001 he was awarded the prestigious Pluma de Plata (Silver Pen) award for outstanding foreign journalism by Mexican President Vincente Fox.
www.joecummings.com

An American national, Jim has lived in Asia for more than 25 years. A speaker of Chinese, Vietnamese and Akha, he has contributed extensively to regional and international publications. He is the author of several books on Thailand, China's Yunnan Province, and especially the "Golden Triangle" region where China and mainland Southeast Asia converge.

Colin Hinshelwood, a British national, has over the last 20 years lived and worked in many parts of Asia, Central and South America, and Europe. As a freelance journalist he has covered everything from refugee crises to adventure sports. Presently living in the beautiful city of Chiang Mai, Thailand, Colin works as an assistant editor at CPAmedia.

Peter Holmshaw received degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and the American Graduate School of International Management, before attending The American University in Cairo and the Université d'Aix-Marseilles. A speaker of French, Arabic, Thai, and Chinese, he has worked and travelled throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia for 25 years. His writing skills have mainly been used by multinational corporations, although he has also published travel articles and is a minor expert on the subjects of Chinese tea and mountain biking.

A linguist and photographer based in South and Southeast Asia for more than 20 years, Rainer has written more than a dozen books on countries as diverse as Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Thailand. He has also written extensively for the international press including the prestigious German magazine Geo, Asia Magazine, Bangkok Post and The South China Morning Post.

Bertil Lintner has lived in Thailand since 1979. Currently based in Chiang Mai, he has worked for many years as the SE Asia correspondent for Sweden's Svenska Dagbladet and Denmark's Politiken, as well as a senior writer for the Far Eastern Economic Review and a regular contributor to Jane's Publishing Group, including Jane's Defence Weekly and Jane's Intelligence Review. The author of numerous books on Asia, he has travelled extensively throughout the region. A Thai-speaker, he was President of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand from 1993 to 1995.
www.asiapacificms.com

Dr Renard has lived in Chiang Mai for more than 25 years, dividing his time between university teaching, managing the Indochina Subregional Highland People's Project for the UNDP, and acting as a consultant for the United Nations International Drug Control Programme. The author of several books on Southeast Asia, he speaks Thai, Northern Thai and Burmese. He is a former editor of the Journal of the Siam Society, and is currently working with the UN Wa Project on the China-Burma border.

Robert Tilley moved to Asia in 2000 after a long career in newspapers, magazines, radio and television in Britain, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and Spain. He was the London Daily Telegraph's correspondent in southern Germany for 25 years and covered post-communist Eastern Europe as a feature writer for the Sunday Telegraph. For many years he worked as a researcher and writer for Fodor's Travel Guides in Germany, Spain and Eastern Europe. From his base in Chiang Mai he now covers Burma. He speaks and writes fluent German and also works in Spanish, French and Russian.