Andrew Thomson is a New Zealand born doctor and co-author of the international best selling book Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures. Graduating top of his year from Auckland School of Medicine in 1983, Thomson has dedicated his life to humanitarian aid. He has worked as a medical officer in the UN in New York, Cambodia and Haiti. He has also worked with the international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, including exhuming mass graves to gather forensic evidence to prosecute government officials. Thomson's interest in humanitarian work came about when he was a medical student at the University of Auckland where he befriended Vary a Cambodian student who was one of the 60 doctors who survived the notorious

killing fields The Killing Fields (, ) are sites in Cambodia where collectively more than 1.3 million people were killed and buried by the Communist Party of Kampuchea during Khmer Rouge rule from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Ci ...

. "Emergency Sex" was published in October 2004. Thomson was sacked for his role in the book but with the help of the

Government Accountability Project The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a nonprofit whistleblower Whistleblowing (also whistle-blowing or whistle blowing) is the activity of a person, often an employee, revealing information about activity within a private or publi ...

, a whistleblower's association, Thomson was reinstated and promoted. The book has been optioned for television. In 2006 Thomson received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the

University of Auckland The University of Auckland (; Māori: ''Waipapa Taumata Rau'') is a public research university based in Auckland, New Zealand. The institution was established in 1883 as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. Initially loc ...

. Thomson has worked for the UN, the World Health Organization and the World Bank. He currently lives in Cambodia with his wife and daughter.https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-thomson-9953221aa?originalSubdomain=kh

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New Yorker

Transcript of Andrew Thomson's appearance on Australian talk show Enough Rope, Enough Rope with Andrew Denton, 4 April 2005

Andrew Thomson's Alumni Profile at his Alma Mater, the University of Auckland, New Zealand

'UN Issues Groundbreaking Whistleblower Policy' - Press Release from GAP (Government Accountability Project), released 20 December 2005 Living people New Zealand medical administrators University of Auckland alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{NewZealand-med-bio-stub