Experience

Global Environment Facility

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Special Assistant to the GEF CEO

  • Mar 2019 - Present

  I work directly with the CEO of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) housed within the World Bank Group. -> The Global Environment Facility (GEF) established on the eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, is the largest multilateral fund ($5.3 billion), dedicated to confronting biodiversity loss, climate change, pollution, and strains on land and ocean health. -> Over the past three decades, the GEF has provided more than $22 billion in grants and blended finance and mobilized $120 billion in co-financing for more than 5,000 national and regional projects. -> The GEF is a unique partnership that works in 185 countries connecting 18 agencies, multilateral development banks, national entities, civil society, Indigenous Peoples, and the private sector. -> The GEF is the financial mechanism for five major international environmental conventions: the Minamata Convention on Mercury, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).



World Trade Organization

• Switzerland
• International Trade and Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Legal Affairs Officer

  • Jun 2017 - Feb 2019

  I worked in the Trade in Services and Investment Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and specifically provided legal support and advice on the current ongoing negotiations to develop a multilateral agreement on 'Investment Facilitation for Development'. -> The Trade in Services and Investment Division provides support and technical advice to 164 WTO members on the implementation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and on further negotiations mandated by the Agreement. The Division also provides support to ongoing initiatives such as on investment facilitation. -> In December 2021, 112 WTO members co-sponsored a Joint Statement on Investment Facilitation for Development. Launched in 2017 by a group of developing and least-developed WTO members, the Joint Initiative aims at developing a multilateral agreement on Investment Facilitation for Development that will improve the investment and business climate, and make it easier for investors in all sectors of the economy to invest, conduct their day-to-day business and expand their operations. Facilitating greater participation of developing and least-developed members in global investment flows also constitutes a core objective of the future Agreement. The initiative does not cover market access, investment protection, and investor-state dispute settlement.



UNCTAD

• Switzerland
• International Trade and Development
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Legal Consultant

  • Sep 2015 - May 2017

  I worked in the 'International Investment Agreements (IIA) section of the Investment and Enterprise Division' of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which focuses on analyzing the latest trends and key emerging issues in IIAs, providing capacity building to developing countries to negotiate and implement investment treaties that can foster sustainable investment. I worked in the 'International Investment Agreements (IIA) section of the Investment and Enterprise Division' of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which focuses on analyzing the latest trends and key emerging issues in IIAs, providing capacity building to developing countries to negotiate and implement investment treaties that can foster sustainable investment.



LALIVE

• Switzerland
• Law Practice
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Legal Trainee

  • Sep 2014 - Mar 2015

  I worked on a number of cases in the investment and commercial arbitration practice of LALIVE - an international law firm based in Switzerland, with offices in Geneva, Zurich and London. The firm is involved in a number of high-profile multi-billion State-investor disputes and has one of the leading dispute settlement practices in the world. I worked on a number of cases in the investment and commercial arbitration practice of LALIVE - an international law firm based in Switzerland, with offices in Geneva, Zurich and London. The firm is involved in a number of high-profile multi-billion State-investor disputes and has one of the leading dispute settlement practices in the world.



World Bank Group

• International Trade and Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Junior Professional Associate

  • Mar 2011 - Aug 2013