Gavin Robertson is an Australian brought up in England. He studied Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool and then Parasitology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He took a PhD at Cambridge in Entomological Population Modelling where he began to work with computers. Afterwards he travelled extensively as a technical advisor on tropical agriculture, did an MBA and ended up negotiating US aid in Washington for Third World malaria control projects. He returned to live in Cambridge where he stares at spreadsheets and crunches numbers for a living.
