Swiss architect, ethnologist, writer, and researcher. As early as 1967, he focuses his research interest towards the study of social exclusion, which led him to the island of Spinalonga.

In 1969, based in the village of Plaka, he visits the deserted island daily, meticulously documenting its architectural wealth. He is looking for the surviving former residents in the Hospital of Infectious Diseases in Agia Varvara, Attica, and records their stories. There, he is closely connected with Epameinondas Remoundakis. This lifelong relationship resulted in the creation of the book "Vies et morts d'un Crétois lépreux" (Lives and Deaths of a Cretan Leper) and the documentary "L'Ordre" (The Order), for which he wrote the script.

The priceless archive of Maurice Born, which doesn't focus only on Spinalonga but also on the history of Crete, is stored at the Historical Museum of Crete.