Anne Paul has been a noted, mainly Asia-based gemmologist and gemmology lecturer for the past quarter-century. A founding member and thrice-elected past president of the Gemmological Association of Hong Kong, she ran her own gemmology school, an Allied Teaching Centre of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain, in Hong Kong during the final decades of the British colonial period. Subsequently, when her editor husband's career moved the Pauls from Hong Kong, she practised gemmology in Tokyo, New York gemmologist/cataloguer with Christie's) and Bangkok (course developer at the Asian Institute of Gemological Sciences). A Wellesley graduate (Art/Education), she has British, U.S. and Australian gemmological qualifications. Anne Paul has led gemstone study tours to Japan, China, Thailand and Sri Lanka, and with her husband has widely travelled the Asia-Pacific region.

Gemstones and jewellery. Asia-Pacific travel and residence

• Shopping for gems & jewellery: a basic approach

• Shopping for pearls

• Shopping for diamonds

• Shopping for ruby & sapphire

• Shopping for the beryl family: emeralds & aquamarine

• Get acquainted with your BIRTHSTONE (garnet, amethyst, aquamarine, diamond, emerald, pearl/moonstone, ruby, peridot, sapphire, opal, topaz turquoise.

• True Jades and their imitations

• Fabulous Fakes or how you can be fooled

• The Pleasure and Fun of Ornamental Gem Materials 
  (moonstone, lapis, malachite, quartz/agate) rhodonite, rhodochrosite, turquoise)

• Gems from the Animal & Vegetable Kingdom: amber, coral, ivory & pearl

• Africa - The treasure chest of the late 20th Century 

• Gems of Australia - Burma - China - India - South East Asia - Thailand. 

• A series of presentations entitled: The Wonderful World of Gems
  
  Gemstone Destination Lectures: A comprehensive group of presentations on the Gems of the following countries is available. Full details are available from Speakers Agency
  
  Africa, Malagasy Republic, Australia, Burma, China, Tibet, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tahiti, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
  

Three decades of lectures and speeches in Asia, Australia, and the United States . Anne Paul prefers to travel & lecture in tandem with her foreign correspondent husband, whose page may also be found on this website.