Baker is based between the UK and China, and has lived and worked in the US, Japan and Australia. Perpetually itchy feet keep her in motion however, and when she’s not writing for local rags on Asian design and architecture from Hong Kong– 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 and actress Jane Seymour to design gurus Tom Dixon and Tadao Ando. At other times she can be found at the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), where she writes, edits and runs an appeals programme.

Baker has traveled to Sri Lanka for the AHRC on a number of occasions to research witness protection and torture legislation, and recently traveled to Cambodia to report on land grabbing, and Indonesia to look into literary censorship.

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 the selected works of Baker's, published during the last few years.