With degrees from Oxford, SOAS, and Harvard, Dr. George FitzHerbert has seen his scholarly interests shift over time from myth and folklore to Tibetan religious history and the Buddhadharma. Before starting work with 84000 in 2022, FitzHerbert taught Tibetan and Tibetan Studies full time as a lecturer at the University of Oxford, where he had earlier received a DPhil in Tibetan Literature focusing on the Gesar epic.

Dr. FitzHerbert's enthusiasm for Tibetan culture began in 1992 when, as a school leaver, he volunteered as an English teacher at the Kham Lingtsang refugee settlement near Dehradun, India, and then traveled to Nepal and Central Tibet. That early experience fostered a fascination with the wealth of Tibetan culture and an abiding awe at the sophistication of Tibetan spiritual life. Over the past thirty years he has made many trips to different parts of the Tibetan-speaking world, Mongolia, and Central Asia, and he spent five years living in southern India.

In addition to academic, editorial, and ghost-writing roles, Dr. FitzHerbert has worked as a radio journalist, a documentary filmmaker, and a drama teacher. He currently lives in Oxford, England, with his family.