My professional life runs along two tracks that keep converging. The first began with a Master’s degree in international relations and led to work as an international communications consultant for the United Nations, where I supported projects on global cooperation and environmental issues — work that demanded a deep understanding of how policy is made, communicated, and received across very different cultures. The second track is technology: more than fifteen years as a web developer, designing and building robust, user-friendly digital platforms.
For a long time these felt like separate careers. Increasingly, they are one. The most consequential global challenges — climate change, biodiversity loss, migration, misinformation — are precisely the ones where diplomacy and environmental policy now depend on technology: on data platforms that make evidence legible, on digital campaigns that reach across borders, and on software that lets institutions actually deliver on their commitments.
That nexus is where I work. I bring a policy insider’s understanding of international institutions and environmental programmes together with a practitioner’s ability to ship real software. It means I can sit in the room where strategy is set and also build the tool that carries it out — and translate honestly between the people who do each.
Earlier in my career I worked in journalism, an experience that taught me to communicate complex ideas clearly and quickly. That discipline shapes everything on this site, including the articles and papers I publish on the questions where global affairs, the environment, and technology meet.
Away from the desk, I cook, bake, and play the guitar — and I remain convinced that the best work in any field starts with building genuine relationships with people.