About

Nicholas Whittle

Nicholas Whittle was born in Preston, Lancashire. He read Japanese Studies at Cambridge and took his MBA at Columbia Business School in New York, where he graduated with Beta Gamma Sigma honours.

He has spent most of his working life in Southeast Asia — in corporate finance, commodities and energy, across a region that has never quite let him go. He began in the City of London before moving to Jakarta in the early 1990s, and spent five years at the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency during the Asian Monetary Crisis, managing the return of pledged assets to the private sector. It was, by any measure, an education.

He speaks Bahasa Indonesia, French and Spanish fluently. His Italian is strong enough to read novels in the original — Eco, Moravia, and Antonio Manzini’s Rocco Schiavone series, which he will recommend to anyone who stands still long enough — and his Japanese, though it needs a week in Tokyo to find its feet again, runs deeper than it first appears. He has lived in Central Java for the better part of a decade.

Anglezarke began as stories told during the Covid years, in a house on a Javanese hill. The earliest sketches were written at the time of his daughter’s birth — inspired, in part, by his father’s tradition of telling stories that never quite went where you expected them to go.

He writes as an interested bystander about menswear for the New York Fashion Geek. He has strong opinions about watches, food, and the correct way to make a Martini.

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