Angela is the youngest daughter of Edmund and Margianna Stinnes VS Gaevernitz.
Her father’s homes in Ascona, Switzerland, were used for international peace conferences during World War 1 and World War 2. The Secret Surrender negotiations involved meetings between German and Allied generals and led to the end of WW2 in 1945.
Angela was brought up in Haverford College, Pennsylvania, USA, where she lived with her family. Today she lives in London.
Her academic journey led her to become a renowned social anthropologist. She was awarded a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1979 and later received a research fellowship from UCL. Her expertise in Southeast Asian studies was recognised both at Udayana University in Bali and, closer to home, at the British Museum where she gave many lectures over the years.
Angela did research in Bali, Indonesia, for forty years. She taught and wrote many outstanding books on the island, including Healing Performances of Bali which focuses on indigenous healing systems that are rapidly disappearing in the modernised and industrialised world.
Angela continued her father’s work for the last forty years. She set up Centro Incontri Umani Ascona, a recognised Swiss Foundation. The Centre she founded aims to encourage understanding, respect, compassion, and peace internationally.
She worked as a psychotherapist with Freedom From Torture and at the Helen Bamber Foundation. A passionate human rights activist and philanthropist, Angela founded the Sutasoma Trust in 1990. The first projects she supported were Amnesty International and Exceed Worldwide, formerly the Cambodia Trust.
