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Prior to retiring and writing novels, Richard Tomlinson’s working life was divided between being an urban policy academic and a consultant.
As an academic, either in full-time or visiting capacity, he has been located in Australia at the University of Melbourne (Chair of the Urban Planning Program); in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand; and in the USA at Columbia and New School Universities and MIT, and in think tanks at the Brookings Institution and the Wilson Center; and at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy. A Fulbright Scholar, he did his PhD at Rutgers University.
As a post-1990 consultant based in Johannesburg, Richard’s clients in Southern Africa included the post-apartheid South African government, various local and international NGOs, the World Bank, USAID and the private sector, during which time he also facilitated multi-party negotiations. He has also worked with community organizations.
Richard has published on Australia’s metropolitan knowledge deficit; low-income housing in Australia and South Africa; community organization and sanitation in slums in Mumbai; the urban legacy of the Olympic Games in Beijing and Rio de Janeiro; World Bank and USAID policy processes and notions of international best practice; municipal services, HIV/AIDS and home-based care; digital technologies and metropolitan governance; and so on.
Richard’s current activities depend on the weather: kayaking, swimming, hiking, mountain climbing and writing. Surfing has given way to age and cycling to Cape Town's drivers.
First Violin, set in a wonderful city, Vienna, is his debut novel. The Bologna Miracles, 1498, a novelette, is in production.
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