Assessments and evaluations interest me because they sit at the point where ambition meets evidence. After two decades designing, leading, and advocating for digital transformation, AI governance, and sustainability programmes, I am increasingly motivated by the need to understand whether these initiatives are achieving their intended impact, where risks are emerging, and how systems and project design can be improved.

The digital and AI landscape is evolving faster than institutional capacity, and many governments and organisations are investing heavily without clear frameworks to measure maturity, readiness, environmental impacts, or compliance with new regulatory expectations. Evaluations create clarity, shape better decisions, and ensure accountability.

Having built UNEP’s digital transformation programme and contributed to global AI and sustainability frameworks, I now find particular purpose in stepping back—examining what works, what does not, and why. Rigorous evaluation is where real learning happens, and it is essential for ensuring that digital transformation and AI deliver meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable outcomes rather than unintended harms.

I bring a rare combination of methodological experience, technical expertise, and policy insight across digital transformation, AI governance, and sustainability, allowing me to evaluate initiatives from multiple angles. My approach systematically considers both the opportunity and risk dimensions of digital technologies and AI across sectors, ensuring balanced, evidence-based judgments. I am also prepared to offer honest, critical, and unbiased assessments—highlighting not only what works, but what does not, and why.

My added value includes:

• Hands-on experience designing and implementing digital programmes at global, regional, and national levels, giving me an insider understanding of organisational dynamics, capacity gaps, and impact pathways.
• Direct evaluation experience, including UNEP’s digital readiness assessment, environmental peacebuilding evaluations, and contributions to global evaluation toolkits.
• Technical fluency across AI, digital governance, and sustainability, enabling evaluations that integrate digital, environmental, regulatory, and institutional dimensions rather than treating them in isolation.
• Strong mixed-methods analytical capability, synthesising interviews, surveys, field data, and document reviews into coherent, actionable insights.
• Ability to assess systems-level behavioural changes catalysed by digital technologies—such as shifts in incentives, decision-making patterns, coordination behaviours, and unintended emergent risks—ensuring evaluations capture deeper institutional and societal effects.
• Deep understanding of global regulatory trends, including AI governance, digital public infrastructure, environmental data standards, and sustainability reporting.
• Experience in 30+ countries, including fragile and low-connectivity environments, which informs realistic, context-sensitive recommendations.
• Clear, influential communication, demonstrated through 30+ UN policy reports, six books, and multiple international instruments I helped shape.

Ultimately, I bring the ability to conduct evaluations that are credible, technically grounded, forward-looking, and aligned with real-world governance and sustainability challenges.

I have formal evaluation training from the UN System Staff College and Channel Research, complemented by UN Results-Based Management certification and a Project Management Professional (PMP) credential from the Project Management Institute (PMI). This foundation is reinforced by extensive applied experience designing evaluations and conducting readiness and programme assessments across the UN system. I contributed to the Environmental Law Institute’s global Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluation of Environmental Peacebuilding Projects and led UNEP’s organisational digital readiness assessment, giving me both methodological grounding and practical expertise in evaluating complex, multi-country initiatives. I also published a book chapter on evaluating the impact of UNEP’s post-conflict environmental assessments, further strengthening my ability to assess programmes operating in high-stakes and fragile contexts.

Capacity building and advisory work sit at the heart of my professional identity. Throughout my UN career, I have seen firsthand that even the best-designed digital or AI policies fail without the institutional capabilities, governance structures, and human skills required to implement them. Supporting organisations and governments to build this foundational capacity—technical, strategic, sustainable, and ethical—has been one of the most meaningful and rewarding aspects of my work.

I am particularly motivated by the opportunity to help countries and institutions shape sustainable, responsible, and inclusive digital transformation pathways. Digital public infrastructure, AI governance, and data systems are advancing rapidly, yet many governments struggle to translate global principles into actionable strategies. I find deep purpose in helping them bridge that gap.

Finally, I am deeply motivated by the human side of capacity building—helping people understand complex ideas, designing training that builds confidence and capability, and working together to strengthen institutional resilience over time. I am naturally energetic and collaborative, and I especially enjoy co-designing solutions with the very people who will put them into practice.

I bring a unique combination of strategic, technical, and pedagogical experience that strengthens enables effective delivery of capacity-building and advisory support to organizations:

My added value includes:

• Experience designing and implementing global digital strategies, including UNEP’s first Digital Transformation Strategy and internal AI governance architecture.
• Proven ability to advise governments, UN agencies, and multilateral partners on responsible AI governance, digital sustainability, DPI, and national digital strategies.
• Track record developing and delivering large-scale capacity-building programmes, including the Digital4Sustainability Academy (25,000+ learners) and 24+ digital training sessions for UNEP.
• Leadership of global learning initiatives such as the MOOC on Environmental Security & Sustaining Peace, reaching over 30,000 participants in 150 countries.
• Strong capability to translate complex technical concepts—including AI risk, digital public infrastructure, data governance, and sustainability frameworks—into practical guidance for non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to design governance models and institutional frameworks, demonstrated through my co-founding of the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES) and the creation of the UNEP Digital Champions Network.
• Deep experience facilitating cross-sector collaboration across government, private sector, academia, civil society, and international organisations.
• Global sensitivity and adaptability shaped by field experience in 30+ countries, including low-resource, fragile, and post-conflict settings.
• Excellence in communication, training, and knowledge-transfer demonstrated through 30+ UN publications, six edited volumes, and extensive public speaking.

Ultimately, I bring the ability to design and deliver capacity building programmes and policy advice that are inclusive, credible, technically grounded, and are anchored with real-world governance and sustainability challenges.

My academic foundation includes a Master of Science from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Victoria, where I specialized in natural resource governance governance, systems analysis, and environmental policy making. I have also deepened my skills through executive and specialist training, including through AI and Digital Transformation in Government by Oxford & UNESCO, Generative AI Leadership Certification by Google Cloud, and the Digital Transformation and AI Playbook by Stanford Executive Education.

Over more than twenty years, I have designed and delivered training programmes for governments, multilateral organisations, academic institutions, and technical teams, covering themes such as digital transformation, AI governance, climate–digital intersections, environmental security, and post-crisis recovery. I have led organisational change processes, including UNEP’s first digital readiness assessment, digital skills framework, and internal digital transformation roadmap, giving me deep practical insight into how institutions build and sustain digital capability. This experience is complemented by advisory work with Member States on integrating sustainability, governance, and digital innovation into national strategies, ensuring that capacity building is always grounded in real policy, institutional, and implementation contexts.

Transparency and traceability are the cornerstone of sustainable digital transformation. As digital technologies increasingly shape value chains, public services, and environmental outcomes, the ability to verify data, track impacts, and build institutional trust becomes essential. I am particularly motivated by this pillar because it connects three domains I have worked in for over two decades: sustainability, digital governance, systemic risk reduction and behavioral change.

Digital Product Passports, verifiable credentials, and trusted data infrastructures provide a powerful way to embed sustainability and accountability directly into economic systems. They enable countries, companies, and consumers to make informed decisions, while giving regulators access to reliable, interoperable data needed for effective oversight. This work offers a concrete pathway for aligning digital transformation with climate, nature, and circular economy objectives.

These digital infrastructures are also important enablers for AI systems: they supply high-quality, structured data that can feed product comparison tools, recommendation engines, and green procurement platforms — shaping consumer behaviour and institutional choices toward more sustainable outcomes.

I bring a rare blend of sustainability insight, digital governance expertise, and policy design experience that directly supports the creation and scaling of trusted digital systems:

• Deep understanding of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks that traceability systems must capture to be meaningful.
• Experience supporting governments and UN bodies in designing data governance frameworks, interoperability guidelines, and responsible-AI safeguards.
• Strong grounding in semantic data standards, metadata frameworks, and digital public infrastructure (DPI) design principles.
• Ability to bridge technical and policy communities, ensuring traceability systems are rigorous but feasible for countries at different stages of digital maturity.
• Track record converting scientific and technical insights into actionable policy tools, guidelines, and governance models.
• Experience advising on the alignment of digital systems with sustainability priorities including circular economy, environmental reporting, climate transparency, and due diligence.
• Strong multistakeholder facilitation skills to align industry, governments, academia, and civil society around shared trust and transparency objectives.

Together, these capabilities position me to help shape systems that not only track data, but also build institutional trust, improve compliance, and strengthen sustainability outcomes.

My experience in digital transparency and traceability comes from working at the intersection of environmental governance, digital transformation, and data ecosystems for more than twenty years. At UNEP, I contributed to the Global Environmental Data Strategy, which focuses on data interoperability, provenance, and quality — foundations that align directly with traceability architectures and Digital Product Passport design. I also worked on responsible AI, environmental data pipelines, and digital public infrastructure components used for environmental monitoring and compliance.

I have collaborated with standards bodies and partners such as ESA, NASA, ISO, OGC, ITU, W3C, and IEEE, giving me first-hand exposure to technical standards that underpin trusted digital systems. Through the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES), I co-authored the Action Plan that introduced principles for trusted data-sharing, transparency, and open ecosystems, which have influenced national and regional digital sustainability initiatives.

My work across 30+ countries — including low-connectivity or crisis settings — has strengthened my ability to design traceability and transparency solutions that account for governance gaps, institutional constraints, and data-fragmentation challenges. I have also authored or contributed to more than 30 UN policy reports on digital governance, sustainability, and environmental information systems, giving me deep experience synthesizing scientific, regulatory, and technological inputs into coherent recommendations for policymakers.

Overall, my training and experience equip me to help organizations design traceability systems and trusted digital infrastructures that are technically robust, environmentally aligned, and implementable in diverse real-world contexts.