BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Milton Osborne is an internationally acclaimed expert on Southeast Asia. After graduating from the University of Sydney with first-class honors in history, he joined the Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, between 1959 and 1961. This experience inspired him to undertake postgraduate study at Cornell University where he received his Ph.D in Southeast Asian history. During this time he carried out extended research in Vietnam, Cambodia and France.
Dr. Osborne has since held academic appointments in Australia, England and the United States, and he was the first Director of the British Institute in Southeast Asia, based in Singapore. An advisor to the United Nations on the Cambodian refugee problem between 1980 and 1981, he then became Head of the Asia Branch of the Australian government's Office of National Assessments in 1982. He is the author of seven books on Aisian issues, and since 1993 has been a full-time writer and consultant on the region.
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