Paul Miles

Writers bio:
Paul Miles started his adult life as a scientist. He chose his PhD topic because it involved field trips to west Africa. Unfortunately, he hadn't thought about the months of monotonous lab work. He changed his career path. Eventually, he ended up working for WWF in the Solomon Islands, promoting community businesses, especially small-scale tourism. He lived in the South Pacific archipelago for five years and achieved some success with his writing and photography in the venerable Solomon Star. Things could only get better.

He now contributes to Condé Nast Traveller (and Traveler), the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian and others. In 2003 he won the PATA (Pacific Asia Tourism Association) Gold Award for a feature on Solomon Islands published in Condé Nast Traveller. He specialises in islands and sustainable tourism. He returns to the Pacific at least once a year and wants to write a book or a screenplay, but has trouble getting around to it.