Mark Ravinder Frost studied history at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and has published articles on Asian history in journals such as Modern Asian Studies and the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. As well as Singapore: A Biography, he is the author of the forthcoming Dreams of Other Empires: The Cosmopolitan Moment in the Indian Ocean World, 1870–1920. In Singapore, he has been involved in various film and exhibition projects as screenwriter, content designer and producer. Between 2005 and 2007, he worked as Content Director and Senior Scriptwriter for the National Museum of Singapore’s new Singapore History Gallery. He was appointed Research Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong in 2009.