1967: Roz is born in Cheshire, England.

1972-1985: Attends school in County Durham, Cheshire and Cambridge.

1986-1989: Reads law at University College, Oxford.

1988: Rows for Oxford University Women’s Boat Club (Osiris crew) against Cambridge.

1989: Rows for Oxford University Lightweight Rowing Club against Cambridge

1989-1994: Works for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), as a management consultant in the Financial Markets Division. She continues rowing, now for the Thames Rowing Club in London.

1994-1997: Takes a job at CHP Consulting, providing software to asset finance companies.

1997-2000: Project manager for UBS investment bank.

2000-2001: Moves to New York, working part-time as a photographer.

2003: Embarks on her first adventure: three months in Peru. Her experiences include an expedition in the Peruvian cloudforest to discover Inca ruins; a pilgrimage to Ausangate; a study of petroglyphs in the desert near Arequipa; a trip up the Amazon to try hallucinogenic ayahuasca; and two mountaineering expeditions in the Cordillera Blanca. She writes a book about her experiences. Is elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

2004: Announces her intention to row across the Atlantic Ocean, solo.

2005-2006: Roz completes her epic crossing, taking 103 days to cross from the Canary Islands to Antigua, posting daily blogs to her website until her communications fail a month before the end, leaving her totally isolated for the remainder of the row.

2006: Roz reveals her plan to row solo across the Pacific Ocean.

2007: Launches her Pacific attempt, only for it to end after 10 days when stormy weather causes her boat to capsize 3 times in 24 hours, losing vital equipment.

2008:Undaunted, Roz returns to the Pacific. Leaving from the Golden Gate Bridge on May 25, she reaches Waikiki in a time of 99 days, becoming the first woman in history to row solo from California to Hawaii.

2009: On May 24, Roz set out from Wakiki on Stage 2 of her solo Pacific crossing. She reached Tarawa, an atoll in the Republic of Kiribati, on September 6. She was at sea for 104 days. The book about her Atlantic adventure, Rowing The Atlantic – Lessons Learned On The Open Ocean, is published in the US by Simon & Schuster.

2010: Becomes the first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean by rowing from Kiribati to Madang in Papua New Guinea. Is named Adventurer of the Year by National Geographic. Gives a TED Talk at TED Mission Blue, a special ocean-themed TED conference held in the Galapagos Islands.

2011: Is elected Fellow of the Explorers Club of New York. Sets out on May 4 to row solo across the Indian Ocean from Australia. Arrives 154 days later, on October 4, in Mauritius, becoming the first woman ever to row across 3 oceans. Is awarded world records by Guinness Book of Records. Is invited to meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace.