Attended Brisbane Girls Grammar School. Runner-up for Australian team for Maths Olympiad. B.A. from Univ of Queensland. Worked as a Consumer Affairs assistant, Att. Gen.'s Dept, Canberra, 1991

Studied in Germany, worked in Manchuria, travelled widely in Asia and Europe. Since 1994 she has been studying in Munich at ??? Language Institute to become a simultaneous translator between English, German and Mandarin. After arriving late in the academic year in Germany she so impressed to people at this institute that they allowed her first to sit in on classes free for the rest of the year and then to sit the exams. After excellent results in thes exams she was awarded a scholarship to continue studying free at this institute.