Experience

Quadrature Climate Foundation

• United Kingdom
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO

  • Sep 2023 - Present

• Acting CEO

  • Jan 2023 - Sep 2023


Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
• United Kingdom
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Director, Climate Change

  • Sep 2019 - Jan 2023

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee
• Deputy Director, Emissions Trading and Industrial Decarbonisation

  • Aug 2018 - Aug 2019

HM Treasury
• United Kingdom
• Public Policy Offices
• 700 & Above Employee
• Head, Energy Branch

  • Apr 2016 - Aug 2018


Department for Energy and Climate Change

• Senior Private Secretary

  • 2013 - 2015

  Senior advisor and head of office to the Energy Minister (2013-14) and Permanent Secretary (2014-2015)

• Senior Strategy Advisor

  • 2012 - 2013



International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Climate Change Researcher

  • 2010 - 2012

  Researcher for the Climate Change Group, working on climate change policy planning, finance, and monitoring and evaluation, with a focus on South Asia and Africa. Researcher for the Climate Change Group, working on climate change policy planning, finance, and monitoring and evaluation, with a focus on South Asia and Africa.



UNDP

• United States
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Climate Change Adviser

  • 2009 - 2010

  Climate Change Policy Advisor seconded to the Ministry of Environment, Government of Nepal, to work with the Government and wider stakeholder groups on developing the National Climate Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA). Climate Change Policy Advisor seconded to the Ministry of Environment, Government of Nepal, to work with the Government and wider stakeholder groups on developing the National Climate Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA).



Freelance

• Egypt
• Human Resources
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Independent Consultant & Doctoral Researcher

  • 2006 - 2009

  Independent consultant providing evaluation, research, project design and policy advisory services both overseas (Bangladesh, Nepal) and in the UK. Clients included Government agencies (DfID, USAID, DANIDA), multilateral agencies (World Bank, UN, FAO), NGOs (WWF, CARE, Oxfam) universities (LSE, Sussex/IDS) and policy think-tanks (ODI, IIED) Independent consultant providing evaluation, research, project design and policy advisory services both overseas (Bangladesh, Nepal) and in the UK. Clients included Government agencies (DfID, USAID, DANIDA), multilateral agencies (World Bank, UN, FAO), NGOs (WWF, CARE, Oxfam) universities (LSE, Sussex/IDS) and policy think-tanks (ODI, IIED)



Haringey Council

• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Administrator

  • 2005 - 2006

  Administrative support to the Head of the Libraries, Archives and Museum Service. Administrative support to the Head of the Libraries, Archives and Museum Service.