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Oslo, Norway

Founder and lead consultant of a multidisciplinary international development start-up. Deeper Edge specializes in the integration of technology and data-driven solutions into environmental and social research projects across sub-Saharan Africa.

Utilizes the DRIFT Decision Support System to model socioeconomic impacts in the riparian corridor and performs basin-wide cumulative impact analysis using Impact Pathway Network Analysis. Develop and manage an internal platform for sharing project GIS data. Conduct in-depth analysis of terrestrial biodiversity loss and land use changes due to multiple.

Lead all project development for energy transition minerals and metals, contributing to UNEA consultations and establishing a new group under the Nature Crime Alliance. Manage projects to combat IUU fishing in the Southwest Indian Ocean and Sierra Leone, with additional roles in Guinea and Guinea Bissau. Act as GRID-Arendal's focal point for circular.

Research and draft user case studies covering the use of novel geospatial analysis and hydrological modelling tools provided by the UNEP-DHI centre to inform integrated water resource management (IWRM), including Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) reporting.

Mozambique

Collect and analyse water samples and climate data to create water quality and hydrological models in the Tsate Hydropower Project ESIA and feasibility study. Use Earth Observation and SQL to identify illegal mining services in the Buzi river basin.

Lesotho

Conceptualize climate-smart initiatives and create an environmental management framework for all offset and compensation initiatives proposed in phase 2 of Africa’s largest water-transfer scheme: the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.

Lesotho

Partner with leading experts from Deltares, Southern Waters and Multiconsult to model the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of water transfers in the Lesotho Lowlands Water Supply Scheme Project. Deliver a flagship environmental flows study to Lesotho’s Ministry of Water, including facilitating training workshops to water resource practitioners from.

Lesotho

Create a baseline report of urban and industrial pollution sources in the Mohokare Catchment, as well as cataloguing chemicals and their licensing system in Lesotho and South Africa.

Norway

Support Sustainable Development Goal 6 by investigating and reporting on community-level water issues under the UNEP Wastewater Management and Sanitation Provision in Africa project.

Lead author of a policy document that supports the Government of Norway’s proposal to reclassify transboundary plastic waste at the 13th United Nations to the Basel convention 2019. The policy brief was successful, and Norway’s proposed amendments were unanimously adopted. This makes the Basel convention the only globally binding legal document that.

Malawi

Draft, edit and submit a preliminary resettlement action plan for households affected by the Maptamanga Hydroelectric Project. As well as design a data collection strategy and lead a multidisciplinary fieldwork team to collect primary geospatial and livelihood data.

Lesotho

Bring together all environmental and socioeconomic outputs from local specialists and draft ESIA and pre-feasibility reports for three separate hydropower schemes in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.

Norway

Design and conduct a qualitative '20 years later` follow-up study that analyses the long-term impact of resettlement and compensation mechanisms in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. This research and collaboration with Multiconsult formed the basis of my master thesis.

Norway

Provide qualitative and geospatial research services, including contributing towards the development of two environmental atlas publications: ´Lake Victoria Basin: Atlas of our Changing Environment` and ´Limpopo River Basin-Changes, Challenges and Opportunities`.

Norway

Draft funding application that successfully secured US$150 000 funding from the National Geographic Marine Protection Prize to launch FishGuard. Fishguard is a pilot project that combines drone and earth observation technology to monitor and combat fisheries crimes in Seychelles and other coastal and small island states.

Norway

Use digital learning platforms to provide professional article and dissertation reviewing services to researchers at an award-winning academic writing centre. As well as publish two annual peer-reviewed journals.

India

One of five students awarded a full scholarship to attend an 8-week fieldwork course in India to research below sea-level rice cultivators in the Kuttanad, Kerala

China

Draft market scoping report on global producers of liquid bio-fertilizers and study Kingenta’s knowledge-transfer mechanisms.

South Africa

On-the-job training programme covering diverse themes required to manage commercial construction and civil engineering projects. Including quantity surveying, contracts management and general project management disciplines.

Master’S Degree, Environmental Studies

Bachelor'S Degree, Environmental Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Architectural And Building Sciences/Technology

Certificate, Sustainable Agriculture For Rural Development

Certificate, Innovation And Rural Entrepreneurship

Exchange Semester, International Project Management Semester

Certificate, Norwegian Language Level 2

Certificate, Norwegian Language Level 1