Network for Environmentally- & Socially-Sustainable Tourism (Thailand)

Sophia was born in Portsmouth, England in 1967. She lived in Germany for the first four years of her life before moving back to England with her family. Most of her childhood was spent in the Northeast of England in Morpeth, Northumberland.

Sophia graduated with a Bachelors degree in Ecology from University College London. She has since worked in Australia as a field ecologist, taught English in the Northeast of Thailand, learned Thai, completed a Master's degree in Environment and Development at the University of Cambridge, researched trade and environment issues in Thailand for the Thailand Environment Institute, studied the diffusion of integrated farming techniques in Buriram and Sakol Nakhon in Thailand, and worked for a law firm in their environmental practice group. She recently worked as the environmental manager of a power development company in Thailand, and is now working (mostly) full-time to develop NESSThai, with some freelance consulting. Sophia is interested in the links between our experiences of our environment and our culture, environmental education, and encouraging participation and shared responsibility in the study and management of the environment.

Sophia is fluent in Thai and has a reasonable understanding of the Lao language.

Sophia is the Director of Programmes and one of the founders of NESSThai.