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United Kingdom

Bringing 15-years of professional management experience to clients requiring high-quality, short- and medium-term staffing solutions to their organisation or programmes in the international development sector.Sectors expertise includes: Economic Development, Governance, Public Service Delivery, Financial Inclusion, and Digital Economy.

Tanzania

Project and programme management, policy research, business development, and business partnering for KPMG's International Development Advisory Services team. Focused on Tanzania and East Africa. Sectors expertise: Economic Development, Governance, Public Service Delivery, Financial Inclusion, and Digital Economy.

Specialising in Project and Programme Management, User Research, Product Development, Operations, Technology Implementation, Communications Strategy and Stakeholder Engagement.

Sierra Leone

Led a small team of professionals to work as an embedded partner within government and strengthen health information systems and data use for supply chain management, analyse the impact of Covid-19 on service delivery and made improvements in data for decision making, and plan the implementation of new vaccinations in Sierra Leone (HPV, COVAX).

Sierra Leone

Using interviews and desk research to understand the current state of the creative economy in Freetown and Sierra Leone (Film, Music, Media and Fashion). Providing recommendations to inform the British Council's 3-year Creative Enterprise Support Programme for young people (18-35). Short-term consultancy assignment.

Liberia

Providing programme management to GROW Liberia, a private sector development programme focused on growing agricultural industries in Liberia through stakeholder engagement, training provision, investment advocacy, and innovation in agricultural practices.

Liberia

Contracted in the role of Technical Programme Manager on behalf of ASI in Liberia as part of the SIDA-funded GROW Liberia programme on this short-term consultancy assignment.

Sierra Leone

Supported Sierra Leone’s Department for Science, Technology and Innovation and Chief Innovation Officer through strategic planning and support. Looking at ways to boost innovation in government services and accelerate mobile technology adoption in the country.

London, United Kingdom

Led innovation projects focused on the development and use of new technologies in urban environments to improve the economy and wellbeing of citizens. I was responsible for developing formal collaborations with local government and businesses to successfully bring new products to market. I was also responsible for establishing programmes aimed at stimulating market demand and supply of new products in new sectors, such as digital planning. And establishing and maintaining ecosystems, contributing to published research and opinion and delivering high quality events.

London, United Kingdom

Programme Manager in Business Change and Transformation. Worked in the PMO office on the integration of BT and EE.

London, United Kingdom

An adaptable and proven management consultant with experience of working in high-profile complex programmes across private and public sector clients, in the UK and abroad. I was responsible for a range of operational and strategic roles across the full project lifecycle. My expertise combines a blend of technical project management skills, with experience in strategic organisational change often enabled by technology. Skills and experience include:- Programme and Project Management (Traditional, Prince 2, Agile, APM member)- Mobilising new services (on behalf of Arriva)- Organisational change (on behalf of Highways England)- Digital process design and implementation (on behalf of Local Government and Housing Associations)- Digital and Data (on behalf of a UN agency)- IT implementation (on behalf of Jaguar Land Rover)- Performance Improvement (on behalf of Adecco Group)- Governance, Controls, MI and Reporting (on behalf of investment banks and energy firms)

Ba (Hons), Politics, Philosophy And Economics

Executive Education Summer School