Geoffrey Sedlezky completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford (Balliol) in 2022. Prior to this, he received an MA in Medieval History from the University of London (Birkbeck) in 2014. In his earlier career, the author was a commercial solicitor in Canada, receiving an MBA from McGill in 1984 and an LLB from the University of Western Ontario in 1989. Residing in London since 2013, the author is now also a British citizen.