I am a former civil servant, senior macroeconomist, and MEAL specialist with extensive experience designing, delivering, and evaluating high-impact development programmes across Asia, Africa, and fragile and conflict-affected contexts. My work centres on governance reform, public finance, political economy analysis, climate and green investment, private sector development, and complex results and evaluation systems.
I currently lead major governance and accountability portfolios at Oxford Policy Management (OPM), where I provide strategic oversight, technical direction, and quality assurance for large-scale, donor-funded monitoring, evaluation, and learning programmes. My work involves partner engagement, politically informed MEL design, risk management, and overall commercial performance. I also lead evaluations for major multi-country economic development and resilience initiatives supported by global development partners.
Before this role, I served in senior leadership at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), overseeing a substantial research and advisory portfolio covering governance, tax and trade reform, climate policy, social protection, and macroeconomic resilience. My work has informed national development planning, fiscal and trade strategies, and policy responses during economic and social crises.
Throughout my career, I have led numerous assignments for leading development partners including the UK FCDO, European Union (EU), World Bank, Asian Development Bank, JICA, UNDP, IDRC, and the Gates Foundation. My portfolio spans institutional reform, macro-fiscal analysis, capital mobilisation strategies, blended finance design, value for money (VfM) assessments, digital ecosystem diagnostics, and applied political economy studies.
I am recognised for building trusted relationships with senior government counterparts, donor leadership, private-sector coalitions, and civil society partners. I have led diverse, cross-functional teams in multiple countries and have a strong track record in major bid leadership, including contributing to multi-million-pound proposal wins and long-term strategic partnerships.
As a published researcher with a widely cited body of work, I contribute thought leadership on governance, inequality, economic resilience, and North–South collaboration. I also serve on several boards and advisory groups focused on economic reform, regional cooperation, and institutional strengthening.
Core Capabilities
Governance & Public Finance Reform
Institutional strengthening, expenditure analysis, fiscal policy, public financial management, and sub-national governance.
Complex MEL & Adaptive Management
Politically informed MEL systems, VfM frameworks, theory-of-change design, and evidence-driven programme adaptation.
Political Economy Analysis
Applied PEA to navigate reforms in sensitive, contested, and conflict-affected environments.
Climate Finance & Green Investment
Blended finance mechanisms, green jobs, climate resilience planning, and climate-impact measurement frameworks, credit guarantees, Corporate Social Responsibility, clean and green transition.
Private Sector Development
Capital mobilisation, investment promotion, business environment reform, and digital trade integration.
Crisis & Resilience Programming
Economic crisis responses, food security systems, macro-fiscal resilience, and recovery planning.
Digital Transformation
National digital diagnostics, public-sector interoperability frameworks, and digital governance systems.
Strategic & Inclusive Leadership
Portfolio leadership, major bid development, ESG, MRV, DEI-oriented team development, and high-stakes stakeholder management.
As a trainer and senior MEL/MEAL practitioner, I have extensive experience across the full spectrum of monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning. I design and teach complex MEL systems, guide teams in developing theories of change and results frameworks, and train partners to integrate political economy analysis into monitoring and adaptive learning. My work covers value for money assessments, mixed-methods research, real-time monitoring systems, digital dashboards, and large-scale third-party monitoring. I facilitate pause-and-reflect sessions, structured learning cycles, and evidence-uptake processes that inform government and donor decision-making, while applying complexity-responsive methods such as outcome harvesting and contribution analysis. I also strengthen institutional MEL capacities across government, NGOs, and private-sector partners, improve data governance and interoperability, and lead portfolio-level synthesis and reporting across governance, climate, private sector development, and resilience programmes.