Consultants
Our consultants - each with a love of travelling and whose footprint is truly global - are constantly feeding us insider tips and telling us what’s new around the world.
In order to gain a broad perspective, we have established a carefully chosen network of contributors some of which are featured here: they are all experts in their respective fields, whose professions regularly take them all over the world and are ideally placed to give us invaluable, up to date feedback.
Stephen Bayley
One of the world's best known commentators on modern culture, Stephen was once described as 'the second most intelligent man in Britain', although he admits this is possibly untrue. Prolific author, award-winning journalist, broadcaster and design consultant. Co-founder and first director of the Design Museum in London. You could never guess Stephen's favourite travel souvenir - if you want to find out then read his Globalista Asks interview.
William Dalrymple
Prize-winning writer and historian who divides his time between London and Delhi. William's latest book The Last Mughal won the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography. White Mughals (2002) won the Wolfson Prize for History, and was adapted by Christopher Hampton, and staged at the National Theatre in 2008. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Daisy Finer
Daisy has been a freelance travel writer for over ten years, starting her career at Tatler before moving on to contribute to, amongst others, Vanity Fair, Conde Nast Traveller, The Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Sunday Times Travel Magazine. She is the Editor of the annual Tatler Spa Guide and also writes a monthly hotel column for Country & Town House. For a quirkier look inside Daisy's head, read her Globalista Asks interview.
Rodman Primack
Rodman is the Chairman of Phillips de Pury & Company, London. He graduated from Tufts University and went on to work as the Head Specialist in Christie’s Latin American Department and then was later a Director of Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles. Rodman became the Los Angeles representative for Phillips de Pury & Company in 2004 before moving to London as the Managing Director of Phillips de Pury, London, where he is an auctioneer and key figure in the overall business development of Phillips de Pury, working with collectors and institutions throughout Europe, North and South America, and Asia. Rodman brings up some unique tips and experiences in his Globalista Asks interview.
Laurie Werner
Laurie has been an accomplished food and travel writer for 20 years, serving as a launch reviewer for Time Out in New York, the author of the New York guide Access New York Restaurants and as a contributor to publications such as The New York Times, Saveur and National Geographic Traveler. An acknowledged expert in the luxury travel market, she spent eight years as contributing editor for travel of American Express' publication Departures, followed by her current stint in the same role for Forbes Life, for which she won a Lowell Thomas Journalism Award in 2008.
Lucia van der Post
Lucia van der Post was born and educated in South Africa where she spent the first twenty years of her life. She has worked for The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times but spent most of her working life as the editor and main feature writer on the How To Spend It Pages of the weekend section of The Financial Times. She was the launch editor of its award-winning monthly colour supplement also called How To Spend It which is now an established part of the weekend FT. Lucia van der Post is now a columnist for The Times but also writes regularly for the How To Spend It magazine. She specialises in interior design, life-style, luxury goods and travel (she has a special interest in Africa and heads off into the bush at the slightest opportunity) she also writes for a variety of other magazines and newspapers around the world. She has lived in London ever since she first arrived in the UK and is married with two grown-up children.
