Experience

University of Ottawa

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Professor

  • Jun 2021 - Present



University of Ottawa

• Ottawa, Canada

• Assistant Professor

  • Jul 2016 - Sep 2021

  School of International Development and Global Studies School of International Development and Global Studies



Land Conflict Research Inc.

• Director

  • 2008 - Sep 2021

  Recently completed a study on reintegration of returned refugees in Burundi Recently completed a study on reintegration of returned refugees in Burundi



Wilfrid Laurier University

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Banting Post-Doctoral Fellow

  • Sep 2015 - Jun 2016

  School of International Policy and Governance School of International Policy and Governance



Social Impact

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Team Leader (consultant) Evaluation of Land Conflict Resolution Project, Liberia

  • May 2014 - Oct 2014



Displacement Solutions

• Tbilisi, Georgia

• Advisor on Housing and Land Rights to the Government of Georgia

  • May 2014 - May 2014



Carleton University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Part-time Lecturer

  • Sep 2013 - Apr 2014

  Teaching a 4th year undergrad course on 'Implementing ‘Good Governance’ in complex contexts: Human Rights, Democratization and Peacebuilding in Development Practice'; and a 3rd Year undergrad course on 'Sustainable development in the global South'

• PhD candidate

  • Sep 2009 - Jan 2014

  Conducting research into the impacts and discourses of the 'Green Revolution in Africa'



University of Ottawa

• Sessional Instructor

  • Sep 2013 - Dec 2013

  Teaching a 4th Year undergrad special topics course that I designed on 'Rights to land, housing and property and international development' Teaching a 4th Year undergrad special topics course that I designed on 'Rights to land, housing and property and international development'



PwC

• Professional Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Team Leader, DFID Land Conflict Resolution Programme Scoping study

  • Sep 2011 - Dec 2011

  Scoping study and initial design recommendations for potential DFID-funded land conflict resolution programme in the D.R. Congo. Fieldwork in Eastern DRC (Goma, Bukavu, Kinshasa) as well as extensive literature review. Also organized and presented at French-language stakeholders' roundtable in Kinshasa Scoping study and initial design recommendations for potential DFID-funded land conflict resolution programme in the D.R. Congo. Fieldwork in Eastern DRC (Goma, Bukavu, Kinshasa) as well as extensive literature review. Also organized and presented at French-language stakeholders' roundtable in Kinshasa



Tetra Tech

• United States
• Civil Engineering
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant, training

  • 2007 - 2009

  Co-designed and delivered an innovative new course for USAID personnel on integrated development programming incorporating aspects of biodiversity/environmental conservation, conflict sensitivity/prevention, and land tenure and property rights. Presented the course in Bogota, Colombia; and Accra, Ghana Co-designed and delivered an innovative new course for USAID personnel on integrated development programming incorporating aspects of biodiversity/environmental conservation, conflict sensitivity/prevention, and land tenure and property rights. Presented the course in Bogota, Colombia; and Accra, Ghana



ICCO (Part of Cordaid)

• Netherlands
• Non-profit Organizations
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Consultant

  • 2008 - 2008

  Facilitated a French-Language Workshop on land rights in the Great Lakes Region. Participants included local NGOs from Burundi, the D.R. Congo, and Rwanda Facilitated a French-Language Workshop on land rights in the Great Lakes Region. Participants included local NGOs from Burundi, the D.R. Congo, and Rwanda



Human Rights Watch

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Rwanda Researcher

  • 2005 - 2007

• Rwanda Researcher

  • 2005 - 2007



African Centre for Technology Studies

• Research Fellow

  • 2002 - 2005

  Project Coordinator, Preventing Conflict Through Improved Policies on Land Tenure, Natural Resource Rights, and Migration in the Great Lakes Region. Co-editor and contributor to From the Ground Up: Land Rights, Conflict and Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa (2005) ACTS Press/Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria. Project Coordinator, Preventing Conflict Through Improved Policies on Land Tenure, Natural Resource Rights, and Migration in the Great Lakes Region. Co-editor and contributor to From the Ground Up: Land Rights, Conflict and Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa (2005) ACTS Press/Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria.