Robert Munro / Rob Munro

Bio

For a month now I have been working almost every waking hour on Mission 4636. If I haven't returned your email or phone call promptly, this is why. It looks like I will be working on this for the long-term, but integrating it into my professional life and (hopefully) cutting back to something below a 16 hour work day sometime soon.
11 Feb 2010

I live in San Francisco where I'm a graduate fellow at nearby Stanford, combining a background in computational linguistics, language documentation, sustainable development and software development into one coherent PhD and career (or something resembling it).

I love seeing the world - I moved to San Francisco from Sierra Leone, where I was working for the Environmental Foundation for Africa, and have previously called Melbourne, London, Sydney and the Blue Mountains home. I travel as often as possible, usually by bicycle. For my last major trip I cycled through East and Southern Africa:

Africa by bicycle

and I've recently spent a couple of weeks cycling in California - the first tour on my 6th continent!:

The Californian coast

When not working, cycling, traveling or sleeping, I consult for NGOs working in sustainable development, mostly in my capacity as Chief Information Officer for Energy for Opportunity, a non-profit dedicated to promoting solar power across West Africa.