Current title: Director, Communication and Senior Adviser to the Secretary General, International Gas Union
Activities: Board and Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR); Board Director of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section; Fellow of the UK’s Institute of Leadership (IoL); Founding Fellow of the Commonwealth Communicators Organisation under the patronage of the Commonwealth Secretariat; Lead Trainer for Robert Gordon’s University Post Graduate Specialist Diploma in Crisis Communication; Assessor for CIPR’s Chartered Status; founder of SPE’s Leadership Development Initiative for Middle East and North Africa (MENA); Chair of SPE Aberdeen Section’s Communication Committee, Another Perspective Committee and Chair of SPE Review Magazine; Mentor with The Institute of Directors, Scotland; Mentor with the UK Government Communications Services; Founder and Co-chair of CIPR’s Energy Leadership Platform; Chair of CIPR’s Foresight Panel; Chief Examiner of Socially Mobile CIC; Judge of IoL’s Digital Leadership Annual Awards; Chartered Public Relations Practitioner; Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis Trainer; published author and university lecturer.
Education: MA International Affairs and Diplomacy, BA(Hons) Communication Sciences, PGDip Crisis Communication (Response) Management, PGCert Change Leadership, PGCert International Negotiations, PGCert Negotiation for Conflict and Dispute Resolution, PGCert Cross Cultural Negotiations, PGCert Religion, Conflict and Peace, PGCert Strategic Management.
Alumna of Cornell University, Harvard University, United Nations’ Institute for Training and Research, Buckingham University, University of Derby, The National School for Political and Administrative Studies.
Work experience: 34 countries across 5 continents
Specialisms: International affairs, crisis and issues management, public affairs

• Australian Foreign Aid Programme
• Averda
• bp
• British Sugar plc
• Central European and Middle Eastern Governments
• Centrica plc
• Circklo
• Conscious Planet
• KazTransOil
• Ministry of National Economy of Kazakhstan
• The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• The European Commission
• The Private Infrastructure Development Group
• The Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority
• The UK House of Commons
• The World Bank
• TotalEnergies