Written by Anne Thurston

Anne Thurston has worked with governments in lower resource countries for over four decades to share solutions for managing public sector records. She lived in Kenya between 1970 and 1980, where she conducted research and worked for the Government’s Kenya National Archives. In 1980 she became a lecturer, later a Reader, in International Records Studies at University College London. She established the International Records Management Trust in 1989 and, retaining the title of Director, she has concentrated fully on the work of the Trust since 1996.