Life and Career
Goldsmith travelled with the International Honors Program, affiliated with his uncle, Edward Goldsmith, through New Zealand, Mexico, Hungary, Italy and Thailand. Goldsmith lived in California for two years, working first for an organisation called Redefining Progress from 1995 to 1996 and later as a researcher for Norberg-Hodge's International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) during 1996–98. While working with ISEC, Goldsmith travelled to India. He spent a short time on an ashram in Rajasthan and lived in Ladakh for six months, studying traditional cultures and helping run a tourist education programme. After his father's death in 1997, Zac reportedly inherited between £200 and £300 million from his father's reported £1.2 billion fortune.
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