• Assisted in the planning, management and coordination of the International Smart Partnership Dialogues (international development summits attended by up to 600 delegates including Heads of Government, senior individuals from both the public and private sector) in 2013 and 2016 (forthcoming). These were coordinated in conjunction with the Host Secretariat – representatives of the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania in 2013, and from the Government of the Republic of South Africa 2016.• Assisted in developing the agendas and programmes for the International Smart Partnership Dialogues, as well as for numerous smaller events involving international stakeholders.• Researched and prepared extensive background documents on a variety of topics covered in the Dialogues.• Organised teams for working visits to relevant member countries, coordinating and monitoring travel, logistics, budgets, programmes, meetings, and subsequent activities.• Facilitated and monitored follow-up discussions, as well as producing comprehensive follow-up documents.• Coordinated and expanded the CPTM Smart Partnership Network of members.• Organised and took part in/led working visits, including to Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, South Korea, Belgium…• Organised and facilitated a series of webinars on the benefits of Standards and the impact Standards can have on trade. The webinars engaged representatives from ISO (International Organization for Standardization), WTO, CROSQ (CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality), as well as representatives from Standards Bodies from a dozen countries in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia.

• Researched and assisted in the writing of a report on Non-Electoral Democratic Controls in China, which was presented at an international conference in Mexico City in May 2013.

• Assisted in the excavation of a 12th Century bath house in the Silk Road town of Taraz. • Acted as interpreter between British and Kazakh archaeologists (Russian to English and English to Russian).• Organised accommodation and day-to-day practicalities for British archaeologists, excursions within Kazakhstan and travel to and from Taraz.• Assisted in the completion of a number of archaeological digs in London, Sussex, Surrey and Kent.• Helped to organise a potential second year of excavation of the Taraz Bazaar site in southern Kazakhstan

• Prepared extensive background documents and outlines for each of the 50 episodes of the series, which aimed to use history, art, music and literature to better understand a country that can seem alien and distant to Western eyes. • Researched archival written and audio sources for the series as well as the accompanying book Russia the Wild East.• Wrote draft scripts for episodes of the second half of the series.• Helped organise and took part in research and recording trips in Russia and Ukraine.