Jeannette Thomson
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Jeannette Thomson, nee Vinta (born 15 May 1959, Bulacan, Metro Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino writer.
At the age of 17 she interrupted her university education and went to Saudi Arabia as the youngest flight attendant for Saudi Arabian Airlines, enabling her to travel widely around the world. Later she returned to university and obtained a BA from Lyceum College in Intramuros, Manila in 1985 and an MBA from Letran University, a part of De La Salle University, also in Manila, in 1989.
She is married to a British American banker, William Reid Thomson. Mr. Thomson was a senior official at the Asian Development Bank ADB at the time. She travelled further, both with him and independently, and was engaged in charitable works in the Philippines until leaving for the UK in 1998 where she settled with her husband and two children.
In 2005 she published her first book, Join Me in My Journey, an autobiographical odyssey dedicated to her mother who still lives in Metro Manila. It is one of the first, if not the first, book published by a British Filipino. She lives in Guildford, Surrey, is active in Filipino community affairs in the UK, with the primary objective of helping the disadvantaged, especially children, back in the Philippines. She is also working on another book.
