Côte d'Ivoire 2030 National Strategic Plan
Translating national ambition into an executable governance framework.
Working directly with the Prime Minister himself, my team developed the implementation strategy and governance framework for Côte d'Ivoire's 2030 Strategic Plan: poverty reduction, job creation, and economic diversification. We also established a Delivery Unit to centralise oversight and drive implementation across government: the structure that would keep the plan from staying a plan.
Malaysia's Shared Prosperity Vision 2030
Policy review and action planning for national environmental sustainability.
Malaysia's 12th Five-Year Plan included a policy paper on environmental sustainability, and my job was straightforward: review it, strengthen its strategic direction, and develop Action Plans for its key thrusts and enablers. A focused engagement with a clear deliverable: turning a high-level policy paper into structured, implementable steps that someone could actually act on.
Malaysia Prime Minister's Department
Building national delivery capability and policy from the inside.
My time within Malaysia's Prime Minister's Department spanned two institutions, TalentCorp Malaysia and Performance Management & Delivery Unit (PEMANDU), at a formative moment in Malaysian public sector reform, and gave me my first sustained experience of how national systems are built, changed, and sometimes stalled from within. It was also where I first encountered the delivery methodology that I would go on to apply across Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Côte d'Ivoire.
The UN Education Commission Workshop
Building delivery capacity across 20 African countries.
The UN Education Commission brought together the leadership of 20 pioneer African countries to build delivery and implementation capability. My team facilitated the workshop — equipping national leaders with the tools to implement the recommendations of the Learning Generation Report — and then went further: we analysed and ranked the readiness of all 20 countries to adopt the methodology, giving the Commission a basis for allocating its support where it would have the most impact.
The Prince's Trust International Youth Leadership Programme, United Kingdom
Designing and implementing community sustainability projects with youth leaders from 20+ countries.
The Prince's Trust was established by His Majesty King Charles III, then The Prince of Wales, to support young people in developing essential life skills and contributing to their communities. As one of a group of International Youth Leaders drawn from over 20 countries, I worked alongside peers from across the world to design and implement community sustainability projects.
ASEAN Youth Volunteer Programme (AYVP) Asia Engage
Designing and delivering environmental projects across Southeast Asia.
The ASEAN Youth Volunteer Programme promotes regional integration by enabling young people to engage with ecological challenges across Southeast Asia. As one of the selected ASEAN Youth Eco-Leaders, I worked with peers from across the region to design and deliver environmental projects in Malaysia. Beyond the project work, I was selected to represent the ASEAN delegates in a speech to the Minister of Youth and ASEAN ambassadors, and went on to serve as a Social Ambassador for the programme.
Sound to Sea, United States of America
Teaching children and adults to understand their relationship with the natural world.
Before the policy work, the delivery systems, the community programmes, and the sustainability efforts — there was this: teaching children and adults to understand their relationship with the natural world, on a 58-acre barrier island preserve with multiple distinct habitats. I designed and led interactive outdoor classes as an Environmental Educator. We watched dolphins swim by from the beach, pried oysters from under the jetty and ate them on the spot, and spent an unreasonable amount of time mucking around in the mud looking for crabs. There is something quietly rewarding about watching someone notice — really notice — how the world around them works, and realise they are part of it.
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