Dr. Oliver Sparrow

Oliver Sparrow was born in the Bahamas, raised in Africa and educated at Oxford to postdoctoral level in a messy mixture of biology, computing science and economics. His career with Shell, the oil company, took him into the Peruvian jungle for the first time. He was a director at the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House for five years. He consults internationally as a scenario planner. He has started numerous companies, one of them, which mines for gold, being in Peru. This...See more

Oliver Sparrow was born in the Bahamas, raised in Africa and educated at Oxford to postdoctoral level in a messy mixture of biology, computing science and economics. His career with Shell, the oil company, took him into the Peruvian jungle for the first time. He was a director at the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House for five years. He consults internationally as a scenario planner. He has started numerous companies, one of them, which mines for gold, being in Peru. This organisation funded a program of photographing the more accessible parts of Peru, and the results can be seen at http: //... Orchids have been a central interest since childhood, and Peru is a fine place for them. However, he has trudged much of the the Himalayas and the jungles of Oceania in search of them. See less