Canadian Comparative Law Project, McGill University, Montreal, QC (Sep 2022–present)Research Assistant• Analyze exchanges between the common law and the civil law in Canadian Supreme Court decisions to help develop a framework that brings clarity to how the Court manages Canada’s “bijural” context. • Prepare commentaries on the comparative law approaches in civil procedure and contract law Supreme Court cases.Research Assistant for Professors Rosalie Jukier, Johanne Poirier, Peer Zumbansen, and Geneviève Saumier on various projects involving private law, public law, corporate law, private international law, and comparative law.

Student clerk for Justice Suzanne Costom & Justice Flavia Longo at the criminal division

• Conduct legal research on corporate sustainability governance issues to support client advisory services.• Drafted a section on Justice Abella’s equality rights jurisprudence for a book chapter on her contribution to Business & Human Rights in a forthcoming edited collection, Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella: A Life of Firsts.

• Established an internal process for managing refugee resettlement applications for CRS Afghan employees following the fall of the Afghan government. Submitted over 300 applications to the US, Canada, and New Zealand.

• Managed a US$20M annual portfolio of grants providing essential services in water & sanitation, education, food assistance, and agriculture to rural and internally displaced Afghan communities, overseeing over 300 staff across five provinces. • Raised over US$35M from US, Canada, Australia, and UN donors for humanitarian and development programmes developed in partnership with Afghan civil society organizations and international aid agencies.• Influenced education and agriculture policies through active engagement with donors, government, and UN agencies. • Received CRS Special Recognition Award (2021) for leading CRS’s Covid-19 response in Afghanistan.

• Filled critical short-term senior management gaps globally. Assignments: Coordinator, Emergency response for Boko Haram-displaced populations in northern Cameroon; Proposal Coordinator, a US$14M emergency food assistance programme in Nigeria.

• Developed and led Freeport’s engagement strategy with Indigenous communities, negotiating impact benefit agreements and obtaining free, prior, and informed consent as part of its mine expansion permitting process. • Spearheaded Freeport Foundation’s $2M portfolio of education, economic development, and cultural heritage projects to help manage the company’s social risks in Chile.• Established an internal recruitment policy to raise Indigenous representation in the mining operation’s workforce.• Operationalized a grievance mechanism to improve communication and resolve disputes between the company and Indigenous communities.

• Formulated social risk management strategies in key areas such as resettlement, employment, population influx, human rights, and artisanal mining at Freeport’s two highest risk operations in Congo & Indonesia.• Authored the Community Engagement Guidelines for Exploration introduced to all Freeport exploration teams worldwide to ensure that their early interactions with local stakeholders adequately managed social risks and aligned with industry best practices.• Led training sessions to build the capacity of Freeport’s Congo & Indonesia teams in strategic planning, project design, implementation, reporting, and compliance with international social performance standards.• Regularly acted as Community Relations Director in Congo, overseeing a team of 80 staff members implementing economic development, education, water & sanitation, resettlement, and communication programmes.

• Launched Freeport’s philanthropic foundation in Congo, meeting the company’s legal obligation in its mining agreement with the Congolese government to invest part of its annual revenue in community development.• Built the Fund’s operational systems, governance structures, and funding mechanisms to implement $9M of health, education, agriculture, and infrastructure projects that supported 300,000 people living around Freeport’s mining operations.• Created a stakeholder governance body consisting of 40 community leaders and directed public consultation efforts with civil society organizations, local and provincial-level government officials.• Led quarterly Board of Directors meetings, presenting the Fund’s strategy and progress in addressing pressing community concerns over public service delivery within the mining concession.

• Opened a new field office in northern Congo and supervised 38 field staff to provide emergency agricultural assistance to 5,000 families displaced by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) through a $1.4M US government grant.• Developed operational protocols and conducted training for a Congolese partner organization to raise their capacity in financial and security management in a challenging operating environment. • Represented CRS in the LRA response to coordinate with UN and other aid agencies and advocate for increased funding.

• Supported the development of multiple proposals to raise funds from institutional donors for CRS’s development and humanitarian response programmes across Congo.• Introduced a mapping initiative of all CRS’s projects in Congo to support project planning, knowledge transfer, monitoring & evaluation, and donor outreach.

• Carried out data analysis and research for the Country Economic Memorandum of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in order to identify key actions to support the DRC’s vision for growth and poverty reduction in its 2011 Country Assistance Strategy• Drafted pilot Innovation Notes for Africa Social Protection Unit to share best practices among policymakers

Supported implementation of community development programs with communities within the mining concession during construction phase.

• Collaborated with Business Development Team to identify capacity gaps in Cameroon’s HIV/AIDS support network and analyzed data from surveys with local stakeholders to develop $1 million proposal on improving health care services targeting 99,000 beneficiaries in the nation• Conducted needs assessment interviews with participants of an innovative childcare project and developed standardized methods of operation and measurements to assess capacity and efficiency • Translated and compiled data on legal transparency issues for a legal aid proposal targeting 4,000 beneficiaries • Researched informal savings associations and microfinance development in Cameroon