She is a graduate of University of NSW and University of York, UK where she earned an MA in Heritage Conservation. She worked for ten years as Heritage Manager for the NSW Government then as Heritage Manager for the City of Sydney. Anne has written articles about Shanghai for local and international magazines and has been commissioned by Watermark Press to write an Architecture Guide to Shanghai (due for publication in mid-2007). She started a tour guiding business www.walkshanghai.com. and is a founding member of �Save Shanghai Heritage�, a volunteer group producing walking tour brochures of Shanghai�s twelve Conservation Areas. The first brochure on the Jewish Ghetto area was published in 2006.