Career
In January 2012 he joined Reuters news agency as Southeast Asia Special Correspondent. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1989 with a Master of Arts in English Literature. In The Trouser People: a Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire, Marshall recounts the adventures of Sir George Scott as he bullied his way through uncharted jungle to establish British colonial rule in Burma and recounts his own adventures as he revisits many of the same places that Scott visited.