(1974)

He was born in London but grew up in Vancouver. He graduated from the University of Toronto and the journalism school at Columbia University in New York. Since 1998, he worked in the foreign offices of the Associated Press in New York, then as a reporter in India and Sri Lanka and since 2002 as a foreign correspondent for Associated Press based in Rome. From 2006 he worked as a part-time editor at International Herald Tribune in Paris while working on his debut novel The Imperfectionists, which talks about people from the environment that he is so intimately familiar with - editorial staff of international newspapers. Currently living in London and preparing his second novel.