After eight years of highly unstructured homeschooling, I had four highly structured years at a Convent in Zimbabwe. Afterwards, I read a BSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Auckland followed by an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise at the University of Cambridge, where I studied trends in the pricing of medicines in developing countries and was lucky enough to get a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. In 2008, my first book, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle, was published. I am currently working on a second book about a group of maximum security prisoners in South Africa who have adopted AIDS orphans. I spend much less time on this than my agent would like, as I'm also a co-founder of OneLeap, a social enterprise startup, a co-founder of Mothers for All, and an Ambassador for the Access to Medicine Index. I'm also involved with several not-for-profits working in developing world health, education and the environment. I was born in England, and grew up in Botswana and New Zealand. I'm a fellow of the RSA.