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Greater London, England, United Kingdom

I'm a co-founder of Building Atlas, where our vision is a fully sustainable commercial real estate sector. Our mission is to make this a reality through rapidly scaling building retrofits: the most sustainable building is the one that already exists. With a zero-touch approach, requiring nothing but the addresses of buildings, we help owners of commercial real estate portfolios: (1) find the best path to retrofitting their buildings; (2) avoid stranding risk and increase the value of their assets; (3) and get access to preferential financing and delivery partners to get the work done.

London, England, United Kingdom

Forming the European Commission's thematic partnership for building decarbonisation and assessor of €170m of Innovative Actions funding for carbon-neutral buildings, circularity, and greening cities. In 2024, a new thematic partnership will address decarbonisation of buildings through an integrated approach, going beyond individual buildings, encouraging a district or portfolio approach to make full use of European directives in building performance, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and climate action planning. Innovative Actions funds city-led consortia of industry, academia, and the third sector to demonstrate integrated urban development innovations in the green and digital transitions.

London, England, United Kingdom

Business mentor for startups as part of the founder help programme in EIT Climate-KIC's €50,000 of equity-as-a-service investments. In 2023/24, this is within the New European Bauhaus Catalyse fund focus on building circularity and decarbonisation. Assessor of €35m of grants to cities to use system design to accelerate their plans for net zero in the built environment.

London, England, United Kingdom

Putting cities at the heart of the energy transition. Leading research and engagement with cities around the world to scan, model, and demonstrate how decarbonised places are fair, affordable, and great places to live, work and play. Making it real for cities by showing how positive energy districts and urban blocks will work with distributed energy generation and storage, from solar and wind in and around buildings and open spaces to the batteries inside electric vehicles on the street.

London, England, United Kingdom

Broadening the reach and impact of the Centre for Net Zero globally by finding, negotiating and managing partnerships. Managing both formal and informal partnerships with alignedprojects and organisations across the tech sector, academia, the energy industry, non-profits, the media and other sectors. Bringing together and growing a wider community of researchers and contributors, particularly with a focus on open software and open data based energy systems modelling and simulation. Overseeing delivery of collaborative projects including joint white papers, real world demonstrators, and coordinated events.

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsibility for implementation of the National Data Strategy in UK government departments, promotion of and collaboration in data-intensive projects across Whitehall, and capability policy for data roles hired by central government (data scientists, analysts, and engineers)Developed expertise in cross-government strategy and investment proposals for data sharing, standards, capability, open data, and ethics; technology workforce planning, capability frameworks and public-private collaboration.Developed skills in government investment proposals, data policy, assessing project value using social, economic, and environmental trends, concluding partnerships inside and outside government, team leadership, and cross-team matrix management.

London, England, United Kingdom

Member of the founding public sector team for the NHS Covid-19 App as part of the government's pandemic response, reporting to the app's chief scientist. Developed skills in crisis leadership, product ownership, influencing at ministerial, chief scientific adviser and stakeholder levels, collaborating with and consultancy teams. Developed expertise in smartphone app development, health data privacy policy, analytical data platforms, DPIA approvals, user research, user-centred design, and public sector programme evaluation.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for transforming the UK government's use of data, including promotion and implementation of data sharing legislation in central and local government. Developed skills in team leadership, government fiscal event business case development, and cross-government collaboration. Results included successful business cases for a new government Data Standards Authority, Data Quality Hub, and Integrated Data Platform in the 2020 Budget.Developed expertise in government and partnership investment proposals, negotiating strategies, assessing project value, capital and revenue expenditure models, assessing feasibility and benefits realisation of proposals in government use of data.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for strategy and delivery of the Mayor of London's support for and direct investment in smart city technologies across the public and private sector in London, and in the city's investment in data and digital transformation of local government public services. Developed expertise in thought leadership, negotiation, multi-agency partnership funding models, city capital and expenditure models, business case development, public-private investment models, smart city project valuation, leveraging internal and external experts, assessing strategic value by assessing social, economic, and market trends, artificial intelligence, data privacy, service innovation, and process innovation.Results included a successful business case for the London Office of Technology and Innovation, publication of Smarter London Together, a new data, digital, and technology strategy for the Mayor of London, TechLondoners, a new startup support programme, and a new investor showcase for smart city technologies. Finalist for the city of the year at the Smart City Expo World Congress and best use of data at the European Communication Awards.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for promotion of the technology sector by the Mayor of London. Developed expertise in growth of technology startups, innovation policy, and international trade (export and foreign direct investment).Results included a full review of the city's smart city strategy and management of the London stand and symposium at the Smart City Expo World Congress with the Mayor's International Business Programme for export support for London startups.

London, United Kingdom

Managed selection, monitoring, and evaluation of 45 seed funding grants for prototypes of future sustainable data- and digitally-transformed services. Funding went to collaborations between university researchers and private and third sector innovators.Developed expertise in digital transformation and innovation across multiple sectors (FMCG, energy, transport, food and drink, agriculture, and waste) and in research council funding. Developed skills in innovation funding and policy, entrepreneurship and startup support and investment models, international collaboration models, academic-industrial collaboration models, digital transformation policy and strategy, monitoring and evaluation, programme management, UK research council finance, university finance, academic funding, and horizon scanning.

Centre For Advanced Spatial Analysis / Transport Studies Institute

Academic policy analyst and data scientist in micromobility, urban planning, and visualisation of human behaviour in urban space, focusing on spatial analysis and user research.Developed expertise across the transport, micromobility, smart cities, and geolocation technologies sectors. Skills obtained included data science, geospatial analysis, user research, transport agency strategy, congestion planning, disruption strategies for cities, transport agency financing and taxation policies.

Ucl Energy Institute

Multi-level modelling of residential energy demand in the UK. Contribution to building regulation and conservation of power research, finding that nearly half of the variability of residential electricity demand can be explained by socioeconomic group membership and neighbourhood location.

London, England, United Kingdom

Consultant on projects in strategy (masterplans, action plans, regeneration strategy, investment plans), and guidance and research (best practice, design guides, design codes, design standards). Clients included local authorities in the UK, Ireland, and Europe, central government, regional development agencies, regeneration agencies and corporations, housing associations, pension funds, property developers. Delivered projects in both English and French languages.Developed expertise across multiple built environment sectors (local government corporate strategy and finance, economic development, regeneration, urban design, housing policy, urban planning, and transport planning) and design futures (computational design, innovation adoption, and modelling). Developed skills in project delivery of consultancy consortia, public sector corporate strategy, regeneration investment proposals and strategy, negotiations, contract conclusion and review, city-wide scale event planning and delivery, service innovation, housing strategy, planning policy, urban design policy, transport policy, property investment, agent-based modelling, and automated design tools.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Energy And Built Environment

Architecture And Urban Studies

New York/Paris Program at Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History

Master Of Philosophy (Mphil), Town Planning