Strategic Communications: communicating technical knowledge and developments, through WhitePapers, storytelling (web articles, communication campaigns) and video interviews
Conference Rapporteur: communicating and sharing knowledge among international experts, through conference and webinar mediation & reports.
Journalist: share knowledge and technical expertise through newspaper and magazine articles.
Consulting: supporting organisations in their decision-making by carrying out backgroundresearch, casestudyvisits and interviews, writing proposals and reports for evaluations and impactassessments.

Bureau Veritas, Offshore & Marine

Providing support with strategic communications to both the Director of Communications and the President of the branch Offshore and Marine of Bureau Veritas

Naval Forces - Monch Publishing Group

Preparing editorial programmes; commissioning articles; editing articles; writing for Mönch publications; representing Naval Forces at international defence shows.

Self-Employed

I am an expert in European Union policy in the fields of asylum, international development, education and training and employment, and an acknowledged authority on governance in post-conflict societies. I can confidently manage projects (proposals, reports, client relations and budgets) and teams (multicultural and dispersed) to perform analysis, field work, evaluations, impact assessments and research.

Ongoing projects and clients include: Country Research (Italy, France, Spain and United Kingdom) and Comparative Analysis across the EU (best practices, legislations): ICF International (2010 - to date); Country Defence and Security analysis and forecasting: Business Monitor International (2015 to date); Articles on defence, security, peacekeeping, strategic issues and naval/maritime affairs in the  Asia Pacific and the wider world for the respected defence publications : Asian Military Review and Armada International (2015 to date); Teaching seminars on International Humanitarian and criminal law to third year law students at Universite de Toulouse Capitole.

From 2007-2010:Project management experience on impact assessments and evaluations for DG Justice, Freedom and Security, DG Education and Culture and DG Environment (copy of the projects' titles and descriptions are available upon request); Stakeholders' consultation - case study visits, telephone interviews; Report and proposal writing as well as questionnaire design experience; Comparative analysis experience of legislation and policies in 27 Member States

From 2010-2014:Freelance consultant, regularly conducting stakeholders' consultations, providing public policy analysis and contributing to reports

Development Planning Unit

Assistant to the Director of the DPU and Director of the Urban Development Planning MSc: Student tutoring, preparing classes, organising curriculum and teaching; Marking, editing and providing feedback to students

Ceasefire monitoring missions and ceasefire monitors training: Training local ceasefire monitors; Carrying out field monitoring missions in areas subject to repeated ceasefire violations; Organising conferences and other events, including a seminar on capacity building in a Kareni refugee camp in Mae Hong Son, Thailand; Peace lobbying, including a mission to lobby Manila senators, first secretary of state and international organisations for peace; Drafting mission reports, project proposals including a project for the creation of a local grassroot NGO and its budget requirements

Assigned to the unit in charge of the strategic partnerships with southern Africa: Drafted the 9th European Development Fund (EDF) end-of-term review conclusions for Mozambique and the South Africa Development Community (SADC); Contributed to the meetings establishing the programming pipelines for Mozambique and the SADC region for the 10th EDF; Assisted in daily administrative tasks

Wrote weekly reports on peace talks, human rights violations and political issues in Sri Lanka and the Philippines; Developed with Mary-Ann Arnado, Filipino "woman peace-maker" host at the IPJ, a local reconciliation project on the island of Sulu, southern Philippines; Participated in the setting up of the Global Women's Court of Accountability which took place the 17th and 18th of November 2005 at the Institute