Jamie is the founder of Digital Explorer and an expedition leader and educator. Graduating from Oxford, he joined Shell International’s management programme, working in Human Resources and Communications. He left to pursue his passion for expeditions and education, first running an orphanage in Sikkim, India. He then founded iNOMAD, an organization dedicated to communicating discovery, running his first youth expedition.

Jamie returned to the classroom as part of the government’s Fast Track Teacher programme after receiving his PGCE from Durham University. He was appointed Head of Citizenship at Eastbury Comprehensive, before leading on multimedia approaches to learning at London’s largest comprehensive, Crown Woods. Digital Explorer was born out of Jamie’s drive for bringing the world to the classroom.

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Raised in Tehran, Paris and New York, Marjan earned her BA degree in Asian Studies-Middle East Concentration at the University of Virginia and her MA in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths College-University of London.

Marjan enjoys cross-cultural photography and filmmaking, and has filmed Digital Explorer expeditions in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and isolated valleys of Northern Pakistan. She embraces the challenge of communicating discovery from remote locations across the globe.

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Originally from Virginia, USA, John got his professional start during the Internet’s first “browser wars” of the late 1990s. Leveraging open-source technologies and aligning with the emerging web standards community, he worked at a number of local advertising and design agencies, designing and programming for the web.

In 2005 John moved to London and received a Masters in Internet Applications Development from London Metropolitan University. He has since spent his time in London working for a London-based digital agency, giving university lectures on Web 2.0 technologies, and assembling Digital Explorer’s web technology stack.

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Since Web 2.0 he has begun to focus his energies into online video content, excited by the opportunities that come with audience interaction and the lack of any boundaries or borders. He is behind the Black Cab Sessions – an online music series filming performances of artists in one take, in the back of a black cab. There have been over 50 Sessions so far, with acts such as Brian Wilson, Benjamin Zephaniah, My Morning Jacket and Laura Marling. The series is watched in over 150 countries around the world.

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Oliver is a critically acclaimed independent broadcast journalist, formerly with ABC News where he managed their Asia operations. As an independent journalist and broadcaster Oliver has reported for various news organisations (BBC, Channel 4, Al Jazeera International, ABC, Discovery, Travel) from Asia, Africa, Middle East and Europe.

He has been nominated for the Livingstone Award for Young Journalists, Emmys and Overseas Press Awards. Oliver runs his own production company Red Space with offices in London and Beijing..

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