Philip Sen

Philip Sen currently works in communications for the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme.

He spent the last few years as a writer, editor and photographer specialising in defence and aerospace, with an additional interest in the politics and culture of East and South Asia. From 2003 to 2005 he travelled extensively across the region, with two years based in Shanghai; he also has wide experience of India.

His work has featured in international magazines from Wallpaper* to Jane’s Defence Weekly and British publications from The Sunday Times Travel Magazine to The Engineer. He was highly commended in the UK Periodical Training Council’s New Journalist of the Year Awards 2001.

Philip Sen read English Language and Literature at Oxford and took his postgraduate qualification at Cardiff University’s prestigious Centre for Journalism Studies. More recently he studied for an MSc in International Relations at the University of Amsterdam, graduating with distinction in August 2007.