Linda McIntosh is an Alphawood-SOAS Scholar in Asian Art. She also has earned a diploma in Museum Studies from the University of Washington-Seattle, an MA in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a PhD from Simon Fraser University. She worked in Bangkok as senior curator for the James HW Thompson Museum and consulting curator for the Tilleke & Gibbins Textile Collection until 2013, curating exhibitions at the Jim Thompson Art Center and publishing Art of Southeast Asian Textiles: The Tilleke & Gibbins Collection (2012).

Linda relocated to Laos in 2013, where she has worked on various projects, such as the Xieng Khouang Provincial Museum and the UXO Visitor Center of Luang Prabang. She began designing a textile museum in Luang Prabang in 2026.

Since 2014, she has researched and written about Indonesian material culture, culminating in a publication, Thread and Fire: Textiles and Jewellery from the Isles of Indonesia and Timor (2019). Her field research continues in Alor and Lembata Regencies and Bali Province, Indonesia. The research on Alor textiles will be uploaded to the British Museum website in 2027. One of her recent publications is entitled Songket Bali: Brocade Textiles of Bali (HALI, forthcoming).