Dr Chloë Colchester read Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing before pursuing graduate studies in anthropology at UCL where she took on an interim lectureship 1998-2001, covering for  Prof. Daniel Miller. Between 2001-2004 she was a post-doc research associate on the ESRC-funded project, Clothing the Pacific: a study of the nature of innovation, a collaboration between Prof. Suzanne Küchler at UCL, Dr Lissant Bolton at the British Museum and Prof. Nicholas Thomas at Goldsmiths College, London. She joined CSAD and LGPN in 2017, offering administrative and research support for a number of projects including CPI, ARCH, Change, Crossreads, the scanning of the Bloomberg tablets, LGPN's research in Syria and Egypt, as well as acting as the Faculty's REF Support Officer. She assisted with the development of three impact case studies, . She was project co-ordinator for UPIER (Uses of the Past in International Economic Relations) at the Faculty of History and a contributing editor of Social Aims of Finance: rediscovering varieties of credit in the archives, published in 2020.