Neil Garrod

Neil Garrod is a lifelong academic never quite sure which way he should be facing. His mathematical background took him into financial analysis and ultimately university leadership. He has held positions around the globe. Harbouring lifelong interests in the natural world and literature he now shares his time between the Kruger National Park in South Africa and Thames-side in Chiswick, London reading, writing and watching.

He is a keen, some would say addicted, runner who progressed through marathons to ultramarathons. In 2001 he ran from Rome to Glasgow in 61 days averaging a marathon a day in celebration of the 550th anniversary of the establishment of the Univerity of Glasgow in Scotland.

He is a Welsh speaker with a mother from Aberdeen, Scotland and a father from Hellifield in the west Riding of Yorkshire. A veritable British mongrel.