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Writer, editor, researcher
About me
Experienced advocacy and communications specialist, editor, researcher and speechwriter, with a demonstrated history of working on international development issues. Skilled in sustainable development, economic research, journalism, awareness-raising and media relations.
As a communications officer at the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) for over a decade, I created website and social media content, including news and feature stories, and was the editor of Making It, the organization’s quarterly discussion magazine. I was the de facto head of the UNIDO communications office for many years, leading a small team of consultants who consistently punched above their weight. Recently, I was the ghostwriter for UNIDO's senior management and succeeded in getting UNIDO exposure in media such as the World Economic Forum and the New York Times.
My research experience is based on many years working as a freelance writer and researcher, including long periods as a contributing writer for the Economist Intelligence Unit and Oxford Analytica where I was tasked with collecting and interpreting qualitative and quantitative information and drafting high-level analytical reports.
As director of the Oxfam/ Christian Aid-funded Haiti Support Group for some 15 years, I published around 50 issues of a newletter and devised and implemented a series of advocacy campaigns in support of workers' rights in the Caribbean Republic of Haiti.
Saving the ozone layer
Saving the ozone layer
Trans-African Highway
Trans-African Highway
The Trans-African Highway (TAH) network is an ambitious infrastructure initiative that aims to connect the countries of the African continent through a series of transcontinental highways.
Where keffiyehs are made
Where keffiyehs are made
The black and white scarf is everywhere, worn by hundreds of thousands of people standing up for Palestine and protesting against the ethnic cleansing and genocide committed by Israel.
Cuba's pharma revolution
Cuba's pharma revolution
When a UNIDO-led delegation travelled to Havana, Sergio Jorge Pastrana was head of the department of international cooperation at the Cuban Academy of Sciences. He was tasked with accompanying the delegation on site visits, and was asked to translate when they met President Castro.
The Gaza Industrial Estate
The Gaza Industrial Estate
Once hailed as a fruit of the Oslo Accords and the Israel-Palestine peace process, the Gaza Industrial Estate overcame setback after setback...Until now.
Because of Rafah
Because of Rafah
The Warsaw Ghetto was set up by Germany in November 1940. It was a 3.4 square kilometre area of the Polish capital where, at its height, as many as 460,000 Jews were imprisoned.
Making It magazine
Making It magazine
Between 2009 and 2019, I was the editor of twenty-seven issues of UNIDO's quarterly discussion magazine.
Left behind by the 4IR
Left behind by the 4IR
Most developing countries are not involved with the advanced digital production technologies that are driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Yet these new technologies are at the core of successful inclusive and sustainable industrial development.
My book was published 25 years ago
My book was published 25 years ago
Libète: A Haiti Anthology
Libète: A Haiti Anthology
Mixing contributions from anthropologists, historians, and novelists, Libète is arranged thematically, offering sections on a wide range of historical and contemporary issues. Each section contains an introductory essay on a particular theme, extracts from differing authors and full bibliographical information.
Contributions include previously unavailable work from Haitians, translated from Creole, as well as excerpts from works by such authors as C.L.R. James, Alejo Carpentier, Jacques Roumain and Edwidge Danticat.
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