I am a senior-level policy professional with more than 30 years of experience in the international development and human rights fields. Before leading the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition, I directed Oxfam America's Power and Money theme and the policy, advocacy, program and research work designed to improve the transparency and accountability of financial flows in order to address poverty and reduce inequality. I have raised more than $15 million from major foundations to support innovative local-to-global advocacy work. I have been a frequent commentator on extractive industries issues in major media outlets including New York Times, The Economist, The Guardian (UK), Le Monde, Washington Post, Financial Times, BBC, NPR and other outlets. I have testified twice before the US Congress and given presentations at the European Parliament, World Bank, Royal Institute of International Affairs, United Nations, U.S. State Department and Harvard University, among other venues. I have conducted field research on extractive industries issues in Ghana, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mali, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Kenya, Uganda, Peru, Laos and Cambodia. I am the author of the Oxfam America report Ghana’s Big Test: Oil’s Challenge to Democratic Development (2009); co-author, with Terry Lynn Karl of Stanford University, of the CRS report Bottom of the Barrel: Africa’s Oil Boom and the Poor (2003); and co-author of Chad’s Oil: Miracle or Mirage? (2005), issued by CRS and the Bank Information Center.
Listed skills include International Development, International Human Rights, Anti Corruption, Foreign Policy, and 12 others.