As a highly experienced professional with a proven track record of leadership across the international development sector, I am passionate about creating positive change on a global scale. I have experience in building businesses and leading teams within the UK and across Africa. I have extensive experience within industry-leading global professional services firms responsible for leading and growing the footprint of their global international development practice, building relationships with key donors, development banks, foundations, the private sector, civil society and academia, developing the organisational capacity, leading the market through research and thought leadership, delivering commercial outcomes, and effectively managing governance and risk processes. I am committed to identifying and growing talent and adept at creating strategic alliances to effectively unlock resources and optimise impact.I have won national public sector awards and have operated at C-suite level for an extensive period. I have a reputation as a trusted advisor and transformational leader. A skilful communicator and motivator, I excel at building and retaining high-performance teams. Committed to sustainably improving the outcomes for gender, equality and inclusion, I have led a wide variety of international development programmes, including delivering climate finance, just transition projects and urban resilience strategies, developing integrated urban transport plans, building social housing data systems, spatial planning for informal settlements, conditions for economic incentives and growth at the urban edge, creating municipal data strategies, responding to COVID through vaccine logistics planning, informal settlements risk mapping, and district health provisioning, improving access to education for women and girls, supporting the response to critical diseases, and building health pathways and ensuring medicine availability.I have deep experience of engaging across complex stakeholder environments and hierarchies ranging from executives, mayors, donors, foreign delegations, ministers and presidents.