Urban Policy, Climate, and Delivery Advisor
Oxford MPP. City government advisory, climate delivery, planning instruments, and public-sector implementation diagnostics.
My academic training is in public policy and peace and conflict studies, but I was drawn early to the practical question of how public systems actually function under pressure. That pushed my work away from policy as abstract design and toward governance, implementation, and delivery.
In Syria, I founded and ran a charity school serving 100+ displaced youth at risk of drug addiction, gang violence, and radicalisation, while supporting 10+ staff and raising more than $45,000 in donor funding without institutional backing. That experience made the gap between formal goals and sustainable delivery impossible to ignore. It also trained a habit that has stayed with me since: judge institutions not by declared ambition, but by what they can actually hold together over time.
Later, I worked inside government-commissioned infrastructure projects in China, close to procurement, sequencing, and contractor-government coordination. That gave me a more operational understanding of how project pipelines stall, what implementation friction looks like in practice, and why approval is only one stage in a much longer delivery chain.
More recently, those threads have converged in Freetown through work on strategic climate portfolio assessment, transport and mobility policy, air quality, vulnerability assessment, and informal-settlement upgrading. The question I keep returning to is simple: what is genuinely in motion, what is still preparatory, and what would help a public institution move one stage further.