Donald Jenkins

Donald Jenkins has been blogging on both tech and non-tech subjects since 2005. He's seriously interested in photography, in information technology in general and in Apple in particular. He is currently based in New York and Paris and has lived in a number of places including, in no particular order, England, Switzerland, South Africa, New York and, more recently, France. His home, roots, kith and kin are all emphatically in the Anglosphere, but he was born in Geneva, Switzerland, where he went to school locally and became completely bilingual, speaking English with his Mother, Father and nanny and French the rest of the time.

Donald was educated in Switzerland, England and France. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford and is also a graduate of Ecole nationale d’administration.

At Oxford, Donald was active in University life, especially the Oxford Union Society. After graduating, he worked for a City merchant bank, then went to Paris, spending his initial year in the east of the city teaching a group of unemployed young people from underprivileged backgrounds to read and write as part of a project to bring them back into employment. While studying in Paris, Donald was President of Conférence Olivaint.

After entering French government service, Donald worked successively in the budgetary, media, cultural and diplomatic fields.

Donald listens to classical music, especially from the period 1780-1850, spanning from Mozart to the younger Wagner, as well as English Church music (especially the sixteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth centuries), and opera. He reads both English and French literature—particularly anything written in the period between 1800 and 1960. He rides a Scott bicycle.

Donald has an active web presence, mainly focused on Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. Donald takes quite a lot of photographs, particularly since he has started using a digital SLR camera or taking pictures with his iPhone.

If you want to contact Donald for any reason, feel free to send him an email.