Jo Baker has lived and worked in the UK, US, Japan, Australia and Hong Kong, where she's now based.

Perpetually itchy feet tend to keep her on the move, and when she’s not writing for local rags on Asian design and architecture – or in the office of a good podiatrist – she can be found on assignments farther afield; on Polo ponies in Shanghai, scaffolding in Papua New Guinea or the rear-end of dirt bikes in Laos. Her interview subjects have ranged from Scottish rockers Franz Ferdinand to design gurus Tom Dixon and Tadao Ando.

The rest of the time she can be found at the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission, where she writes and runs a programme. She recently traveled to Sri Lanka for the AHRC to report on witness protection and custodial torture.

Publications she has written for include Time Magazine, Marie Claire, Architecture Week and Hospitality Design in the US; The Guardian in the UK; The South China Morning Post, Discovery Magazine, Smart Travel Asia, Prestige, Tatler, Silkroad, Finance Asia, Perspective and Hinge Magazine in Hong Kong/China; The Sri Lankan Guardian in Sri Lanka and Abenteuer und Reisen in Germany. She has also penned a travel guide to Hong Kong for the Bradman's series, a book on lighting designer Tino Kwan and publicity material for select firms, such as Hong Kong design studio AB Concept.

www.jobakeronline.com features selected works of Baker's, published during the last few years.