I help donors, governments, and local institutions design and deliver governance reform across the Western Balkans, the Middle East, and East Africa — combining political economy analysis, digital government, and AI-enabled tools to make change feasible, not just well intentioned.
Currently MULK Project Manager with UN-Habitat in Iraq, leading EU-funded modernisation of land and property systems. Former USAID senior leader, having directed governance, economic growth, and institutional reform portfolios exceeding €500 million.
A career built around delivery in politically complex environments — focused on institutions, incentives, implementation constraints, and practical pathways to reform.
I work where governance, digital government, and applied technology meet — turning rigorous analysis into reform that institutions can actually carry.
I help donors, governments, and local institutions design and implement reforms that are politically informed, climate-smart, tech-enabled, and locally owned. My work applies AI, digital platforms, and data-driven systems to strengthen policy design, programme implementation, monitoring, learning, accountability, and institutional performance.
Across my career I have directed portfolios exceeding €500 million in governance, economic growth, elections, and institutional reform. With USAID I served as Head of the Governance and Institutional Reform portfolio — as Technical Office Director in Montenegro and Iraq, and as Deputy in Kenya — leading sector strategy, programme design, and oversight of multi-year donor investments.
Most recently I have led Political Economy Analysis and advisory support on Housing, Land and Property reform in Iraq in support of EU programming, now continuing as MULK Project Manager with UN-Habitat. As Co-Founder of EmpowerDevTech and the Climate Canvas Initiative, I have developed digital and AI-enabled solutions that advance localisation, strengthen organisational capacity, and equip local actors to respond to governance, climate, and market challenges.
Distinct but connected areas of expertise, drawn on individually or in combination depending on the assignment.
Politically informed reform: diagnosing incentives, institutional blockages, stakeholder interests, and reform coalitions, then turning that into strategy institutions can actually carry. Includes democracy, elections, public finance, and service delivery.
Digitally enabled public systems treated as governance instruments: registry and cadastre modernisation, e-land administration, data systems, standards, and the institutional arrangements that make digitalisation stick.
Applied AI and digital products for policy design, monitoring and evaluation, learning, knowledge management, and localisation — practical tools that improve decision-making and equip local organisations and SMEs.
End-to-end delivery aligned with donor frameworks: programme design, results architecture, logframes, reporting, coordination, adaptive management, and risk — informed by directing portfolios exceeding €500 million.
The emphasis is on what can actually move within real institutional and political constraints.
Programmes and recommendations are shaped by incentives, actors, interests, and administrative reality — not only by formal mandates.
Design choices are connected to delivery mechanisms, staffing, sequencing, risk, and institutional ownership.
Strong command of the expectations, language, and structuring logic of EU, UN, and USAID programming.
Digital and AI tools are treated as governance instruments that must fit legal frameworks, institutional routines, and human capacity.
From democratic-transition support in the Balkans to digital land governance reform in Iraq.
Illustrative examples across governance, digital systems, and EU/UN programming.
Programme leadership combining political economy, digital government, and EU compliance — supporting registry and cadastre modernisation, institutional coordination, digital standards, and demonstration-oriented capacity development across Federal Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.
Assessment of incentives, institutional relationships, reform barriers, and realistic pathways — the analysis that grounds feasible, EU-supported HLP reform.
Senior leadership — as Technical Office Director in Montenegro and Iraq, and Deputy in Kenya — directing governance, public-sector reform, digitalisation, and democratic resilience programming, with oversight of multi-year donor investments.
Practical digital tools for learning, proposal development, monitoring, strategy support, and organisational capacity-building — applying AI and digital systems to localisation and the work of local actors and SMEs.
A professional pathway shaped by transitional, fragile, and reform-oriented environments.
Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the wider democratic-transition context.
Federal Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, with extensive work on governance, digital reform, and institutional systems.
Kenya, regional East Africa engagement, and broader international development collaboration.
Writing that connects governance, digital innovation, AI, and development practice.
Applied analysis on how AI may support participation, rights-based programming, and better development practice when linked to institutional safeguards.
Work exploring the institutional and governance foundations required for effective climate action.
Commentary on democratic institutions, reform pressures, governance quality, and EU-oriented trajectories.
Economics, environment, and policy as the basis for a cross-sector development career.
Open to assignments in governance reform, political economy analysis, digital government and land administration, AI for development, and EU/UN/donor programme design — whether a focused engagement or end-to-end programme leadership.
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