Work with me
The relationships I value most are built around clear questions, practical judgment, and honest assessment of what finance can - and cannot - do.
I work with governments, philanthropies, development institutions, NGOs, and private-sector partners on climate, nature, and disaster risk finance.
How we can work together
Strategic Advisory
Philanthropies, NGOs, DFIs, and private-sector teams
Ongoing access to senior-level strategic thinking, review, and decision support. Useful for organizations developing new initiatives, assessing emerging finance models, positioning a program, or navigating a complex institutional landscape.
Typical commitment: 1-4 days/month
Instrument Diagnostics
Teams designing or evaluating disaster risk finance instruments, outcome bonds, blended finance, or nature-linked structures
Independent analysis of how a current or proposed structure works, what risk it transfers, who pays, what incentives it creates, and what claims can credibly be made.
Typical scope: 2-3 days (short memo)
Program & Concept Design
Organizations developing strategies, initiatives, or financing concepts
Scoped engagements to design practical frameworks, financing pathways, program concepts, or implementation strategies. This can include landscape analysis, stakeholder interviews, option assessment, instrument mapping, and recommendations.
Typical scope: 1- 9 months
Speaking Engagements
Boards, funders, teams, and events
Structured briefings, workshops, panels, and keynote-style contributions on disaster risk finance, nature finance, insurance, resilience, adaptation, and the limits of current climate finance narratives.
Typical scope: 30-90 minute briefing, panel member or moderator, or facilitated discussion
Not sure which format fits? I am happy to discuss the question you are working through and suggest the most useful scope.
Engagements Examples
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Useful when an organization is trying to define its role, sharpen its strategy, assess a new opportunity, or determine where it can credibly act.
Example engagements:
Defining an institution’s role in climate or nature finance
Assessing an emerging financing opportunity or market
Developing a theory of change and priority intervention pathways
Positioning a program for funders, partners, or senior leadership
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Useful when an organization wants to explore whether a financing concept, risk-transfer approach, or payment mechanism could work in practice.
Example engagements:
Designing a climate resilience or nature finance program
Developing a financing pathway, facility concept, or implementation framework
Structuring case-study selection, consultation processes, and workstreams
Clarifying the respective roles of grant, public, concessional, and private capital
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Useful when an organization needs an external view before funding, launching, communicating, or scaling an initiative.
Example engagements:
Reviewing a parametric insurance concept or risk-transfer structure
Assessing the financial logic of a catastrophe bond, outcome bond, or debt conversion
Testing claims around mobilization, scalability, risk reduction, or investability
Clarifying who bears risk, who pays, and what the structure actually finances
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Useful when complex finance questions need to be made clear for boards, funders, partners, executives, or mixed technical and non-technical audiences.
Example engagements:
Preparing a board or funder briefing on climate and nature finance
Facilitating a strategy workshop
Developing a conference presentation or keynote
Synthesizing complex evidence into clear options and decision points