Melissa Lawford is British journalist who writes about travel and international lifestyle for ‘High Life’, British Airways’ inflight magazine, and about global property markets and design for ‘FT Weekend’. Her other bylines include ‘The British Journal of Photography’ and ‘The Week Travel’. She grew up in the south of England and studied English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, with a year abroad at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a Masters in Magazine Journalism from City, University of London. She has written about the primacy of large-scale reclaimed land projects in Asia, the viability of European rental models and property trends such as the rise of super-prime auctions in America