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Partnered with organisations from 22 countries, including CIVICUS, Oxfam and Global Witness. Projects ranged from multi-year, multi-country grants to short-term consultancies.\n- Managed teams of up to 12 people on individual projects, including UX/graphic designers, developers and technologists.", - "website": "https://theengineroom.org" - }, - { - "company": "Freelance", - "endDate": "2018-11-30", - "highlights": [], - "position": "Writer and editor", - "startDate": "2014-06-30", - "summary": "Freelance writing and research. Bylines in The Guardian and Global Voices; edited wide range of research and writing, including a multi-country study of public participation initiatives in India and Sri Lanka, and an evaluation of multilateral donor cooperation in Yemen.", - "website": "" - }, - { - "company": "ERIS", - "endDate": "2014-05-31", - "highlights": [], - "position": "Asia Programme Officer", - "startDate": "2013-06-30", - "summary": "Project-manager and researcher on initiatives supporting democratic institutions and culture in south and south-east Asia. \n\n- Designed and/or managed election-monitoring and anti-corruption projects in Rwanda, Bolivia and Myanmar together with local civil society organisations , with budgets totalling more than €450,000. Wrote successful bids worth €400,000 from EU Commission, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and DFID.\n\n- Monitored political developments in Asia (with an emphasis on Myanmar, Bangladesh and Pakistan) and prepared briefing notes, detailed project proposals and updates for donors and other international organisations. Topics of focus included training domestic election observers, advocacy for more transparent campaign finance, civic and voter education campaigns and media monitoring. \n\n- Prepared proposals for European Union funded programmes, winning bids worth a total of €400,000, and project managed several European Commission projects worth a total of €450,000.", - "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201021205516/http://www.eris.org.uk/" - }, - { - "company": "OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)", - "endDate": "2014-04-30", - "highlights": [], - "position": "Election Observer", - "startDate": "2014-04-30", - "summary": "Short Term Observer for early Parliamentary and Presidential elections in North Macedonia.\n\nMonitoring of election procedures, compiling and formalising reports on practices regarding free & fair election processes.", - "website": "https://www.osce.org/odihr/" - }, - { - "company": "Control Risks", - "endDate": "2013-05-31", - "highlights": [], - "position": "Editor, Global Risk Analysis", - "startDate": "2010-09-30", - "summary": "Edited and/or drafted daily updates and in-depth research reports on corruption, security and political risks in Asia and Africa for 10,000+ paying subscribers in the private and public sectors.\n\n- Monitored political, economic and security issues in Asia/Africa to produce concise, accurate and comprehensive analysis.\n- Produced infographics, maps and data visualisations using Adobe Creative Suite and GIS.", - "website": "https://www.controlrisks.com" - }, - { - "company": "ERIS", - "endDate": "2013-04-30", - "highlights": [], - "position": "Programme Assistant", - "startDate": "2010-01-31", - "summary": "Project-managed the redesign of the website of this non-profit democracy support organisation (www.eris.org.uk), and re-designed information architecture to reflect ERIS's operational needs.\n- Supported organisation of International Visitors Programme for the May 2010 UK general election, on behalf of the UK Electoral Commission. Twenty-six representatives of election management bodies from 14 countries participated.", - "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201021205516/http://www.eris.org.uk/" - }, - { - "company": "The Statesman", - "endDate": "2009-05-31", - "highlights": [], - "position": "Sub Editor", - "startDate": "2009-01-31", - "summary": "Edited and fact-checked copy from the political and regional sections of this Indian national newspaper, while based in Kolkata.", - "website": "https://www.thestatesman.com/" - }, - { - "company": "Royal United Services Institute", - "endDate": "2009-02-28", - "highlights": [], - "position": "Editorial Assistant", - "startDate": "2008-09-30", - "summary": "Commissioned, edited to house style and proof-read materials published online by this think-tank; other duties included writing original copy, creating specialist analysis portals, conducting picture research and utilising RUSI’s existing database of articles to provide up-to-date coverage of topical issues.", - "website": "https://rusi.org/" - } - ], - "volunteer": [ - { - "organization": "Brixton People's Kitchen", - "position": "Co-organiser", - "website": "https://www.brixtonpeopleskitchen.com/", - "startDate": "2011-12-21", - "endDate": "2014-04-31", - "summary": "Member of organising team for this community kitchen, which aims to bring people together and reduce food waste. Roles included co-running events, connecting with partner organisations, jointly preparing a successful funding bid for Nesta, coordinated the building of a bike-based mobile kitchen, and lots of cooking. The project received coverage in The Guardian and Al-Jazeera, was adopted by a larger charity and continues today. See: a blog about the project,\na description of the process of building a mobile kitchen,\n and more detail on the results", - "highlights": [] - } - ], - "education": [ - { - "institution": "King's College London, University of London", - "area": "Imperial History", - "studyType": "MA", - "startDate": "2009-12-31", - "endDate": "2010-12-31", - "gpa": "Distinction", - "courses": [Focus on history of decolonisation in 1940s-50s.] - }, - { - "institution": "University of Durham", - "area": "History", - "studyType": "BA (Hons)", - "startDate": "2005-12-31", - "endDate": "2008-12-31", - "gpa": "First Class", - "courses": [] - } - ], - "awards": [], - "publications": [ - { - "name": "Pandemics, power, and publics: trends in post-crisis health technology, in 'A Global Review in 'Data Justice and COVID-19: Global Perspectives'", - "publisher": "Meatspace Press", - "releaseDate": "2020-09-06", - "website": "https://shop.meatspacepress.com/product/data-justice-and-covid-19-global-perspectives-donate-download", - "summary": "Co-authored a chapter on the development of technology in the UK in response to the COVID-19 pandemic." - }, - { - "name": "Technology for Legal Empowerment: A Global Review", - "publisher": "Open Society Justice Initiative", - "releaseDate": "2019-01-06", - "website": "/projects/legal-empowerment", - "summary": "Lead researcher on the first global review of how technology is being used to support legal empowerment work worldwide, managing a team of researchers." - }, - { - "name": "Privacy or Public Interest? Making the Case for Public Information on Company Ownership", - "publisher": "OpenOwnership", - "releaseDate": "2018-02-06", - "website": "/projects/beneficial-ownership", - "summary": "Lead researcher on the first global review of how technology is being used to support legal empowerment work worldwide, managing a team of researchers." - }, - { - "name": "Humanitarian Futures for Messaging Apps: Understanding the opportunities and risks", - "publisher": "International Committee of the Red Cross", - "releaseDate": "2017-02-06", - "website": "/projects/messaging-apps", - "summary": "Lead researcher on this project, the first to examine the use of messaging apps in humanitarian work in depth." - }, - { - "name": "Research synthesis: Making All Voices Count", - "publisher": "Institute for Development Studies", - "releaseDate": "2017-08-06", - "website": "", - "summary": "" - }, - { - "name": "Translating Oxfam's responsible data policy into practice", - "publisher": "Oxfam", - "releaseDate": "2017-04-19", - "website": "https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/responsible-data-at-oxfam-translating-oxfams-responsible-data-policy-into-pract-620257", - "summary": "" - }, - { - "name": "Sometimes it is about the tech: Choosing technology in Kenyan and South African transparency and accountability initiatives", - "publisher": "Making All Voices Count (Institute of Development Studies", - "releaseDate": "2017-03-31", - "website": "/projects/tool-selection", - "summary": "" - }, - { - "name": " A Primer on technology to monitor rainforests and forest peoples' rights", - "publisher": "Rainforest Foundation Norway", - "releaseDate": "2017-02-31", - "website": "/assets/publications/rainforest-tech-primer.pdf", - "summary": "" - }, - { - "name": "Microtasking: An introduction", - "publisher": "Amnesty International", - "releaseDate": "2016-06-21", - "website": "/projects/tool-selection", - "summary": "" - }, - { - "name": "The Impacts of Citizen-Generated Data in Argentina, East Africa and Nepal", - "publisher": "CIVICUS", - "releaseDate": "2016-02-31", - "website": "/projects/citizen-generated-data", - "summary": "I commissioned, edited and produced three research reports by in-country researchers on what difference projects involving data generated by citizens." - }, - { - "name": "A Movements Perspective on Transparency and Accountability", - "publisher": "Transparency and Accountability Initiative", - "releaseDate": "2015-09-30", - "website": "/projects/social-movements-transparency", - "summary": "I was a researcher on this project, conducting interviews with activists and academics from multiple countries, and co-writing the final output." - }, - { - "name": "Spain's alternative party Podemos is growing in circles", - "publisher": "Global Voices", - "releaseDate": "2014-09-30", - "website": "https://globalvoices.org/2014/09/05/independent-political-party-podemos-spreads-across-spain/", - "summary": "I wrote this feature piece for Global Voices. " - }, - { - "name": "'The rise of Greek civil society'", - "publisher": "The Guardian", - "releaseDate": "2014-06-30", - "website": "http://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2014/sep/19/greece-volunteering-politics-charities-europe", - "summary": "Co-authored this feature for the Guardian" - }, - { - "name": "Sri Lankan Military Prepares for End Game", - "publisher": "openDemocracy", - "releaseDate": "2009-04-30", - "website": "https://www.opendemocracy.net/article/email/sri-lankan-military-prepares-for-end-game", - "summary": "Wrote this, one of a series of updates on the political situation in South Asia for OpenDemocracy's openIndia section." - } - ], - "languages": [ - { - "language": "English", - "fluency": "Native Speaker" - }, - { - "language": "French", - "fluency": "2/5" - } - ], - "interests": [], - "references": [] -}