Stephen Simmons

Stephen Simmons is a former British Army Officer who served for sixteen years from Berlin to Belize and from the Home Counties of England to Hong Kong. On leaving the army he returned with his family to Hong Kong where he spent over twenty years broking equity markets in Hong Kong, Thailand and London and working in private equity in Cambodia. Married with two grown-up children, he now lives in East Sussex for two-thirds of the year and in Bangkok for the remainder, where he carried out much of the research for his book, Cambodia’s Swinging Sixties: Architecture, The Arts, and a Lost Society. He is also the co-author with Valerie Ho of Club Class in Asia Pacific: The Insiders’ Guide to Private Members’ Clubs (Editions Didier Millet, Singapore, 2007). He is also the author of Maymyo Days, Forgotten Lives of a Burma Hill Station. (River Books, 2003). He is a member of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand in Bangkok, the Army and Navy Club in London and The Pilgrims in London and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.