Education

1990: PhD, ‘Traditions of Buddhist practice in Burma’. Supervisor: Richard Burghart.

Dept of Anthropology and Sociology, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University

Funded by a SOAS Governing Body Postgraduate Exhibition (1980-83)

1980: BA Honours in South East Asian Studies

Burmese Language and Literature and Social Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies

1976: United World College of Southeast Asia, Singapore (on UWC scholarship from The Netherlands)

1974: Dalton Scholengemeenschap, Voorburg, The Netherlands

Attended six different primary schools in Iran, The Netherlands and Argentina (including a Spanish speaking school).