I lead Artios' Strategy, Research and Advisory e.g. • Advisory: International Finance Corporation - Country Private Sector Diagnostic Energy Transition / Mining local value addition in Southern Africa (Zambia) 2024.• Research & policy advice: UK Govt - Climate & Energy. Mixed methods research and strategy formulation on the nexus of critical minerals, geopolitics and strategic infrastructure.(Southern Africa) 2022-2024.• Advisory: R&D in the Middle East and Caucasus (Iraq/Azerbaijan).Political & Commercial strategy for ($420m+ USD) Export Finance backed Mine Action. 2020-present. • Evaluations: Localisation & Capacity Development for DCA, IHSCO and UNMASMixed methods - survey, interviews, FGDs and observations via OECD-DAC criteria / Outcome Mapping, to provide strategic partnership and operational recommendations (Iraq) 2022-2024.• Strategic assessment: UNICEF Innovation system for Humanitarian products.Global liaison: Governments, UN, NGOs, business sector and Civil Society. Analysis of policy, market dynamics, financing, supply/logistics and human factors. 2019-2020 • Global review: Community Engagement / Partnerships in Urban environments. GICHD/ Dept State. Study of 100+ participants with recommendation to harmonise approaches to CE (Iraq and Libya) 202/2021. • Strategic Assessment: Fragile and Conflict-Affected States DoS/FCDOInvestigated drivers and enablers of Conflict & Serious and Organised Crime to inform policy response for Donors and National Government inc. mentoring agencies (East & Central Africa) 2018-2022. • Visiting Scholar at the Mitchell Institute for Peace, Queens University Belfast. Led an ‘evidence and research to policy Impact’ secondment for European Research Council sponsored Impact Acceleration. 2020• Designed and delivered Operational Planning capacity development programmes.African Union / UN, for British Peace Support Team (Africa) Defence Strategic Engagement 2016-2020.

Co-founder of Blackmane Media - award winning independent production company- specialises in cutting edge productions of high-end branded content, factual entertainment and observational documentaries.Produced for Channel 4 UK, Sky TV, Discovery Channel, CNBC and BBC. Broadcast award nominated for 'Arabia with Levison Wood' and won Best Travel Show award in India for Borderlands with Discovery.

Global Operations Director The MENTOR Initiative saves lives in emergencies through tropical disease controlHeadquarters (UK)- Managed daily operations of 7 missions across Africa and Middle East: HR, accountability, programme and financial audits, safety & security, knowledge management and critical logistics issues.- Ran quality assurance of quarterly, annual and end of project financial and programme reports to numerous funders across institutional aid donors, government departments and UN agencies.- Designed and delivered needs assessment missions and subsequently drafted business development/grant proposals for USAID, EU, DFID, BRM, UNF & CDC funding mechanisms. Ebola Response Country Director (Liberia)- Transformed organisation from a development to emergency tempo extending scope from 2-5 projects including planning a 5 site training academy to train 3200 health in 3 months forthe WHO.- Ran technical malaria control operational research projects and large scale Ebola response community health education, high risk infection prevention training and clinical coaching projects.- Directed field trials of a distributed simulation software training project using AGILE methodology to integrate a virtual, multi-national team from commercial (JP Morgan) and academic (Plymouth University) Centres of Excellence.

- Risk Advisor and Location Manager for C4 TV Series - Walking the America's and Russia to Iran (Levison Wood). Managed 5 month, 1700 mile journey across Central America from Mexico to Colombia on foot and 4 month, 2600mile journey through the Caucasus by foot and vehicles. - Coordinate high risk expeditions end to end through all phases of the project lifecycle. Austere locations force complex risk management and logistics solutions. - Personally led multinational teams (up to 44 pers) successfully on world first expeditions through desert, mountain and jungle environments in Central America, Africa, Central Asia and MENA.

- Executive assistant (Adjutant) to the Commanding Officer (CEO) for an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Organisation >700 personnel. - Intelligence Officer and a principal planning advisor to the head of British Army operations in Helmand, Afghanistan for Engineering, C-IED and Humanitarian integration.

- Operations and Training Manager for a ~200 personnel Airborne engineer unit, prepared to deploy in < 24hrs worldwide on Humanitarian operations.- Regimental Operations Officer for >700 personnel providing construction engineer support to UK operations in Iraq. Managed a programme of 100+ engineering tasks which facilitated the successful drawdown of UK security infrastructure from Iraq.