CV

Professional Experience

Ricardo plc (now WSP) — Economist (Associate Director)
Apr 2025 – Present | London, United Kingdom

Ricardo Plc (LSE: RCDO) is a leading global strategic, environmental, and engineering consultancy based in the UK. In June 2025, Ricardo was acquired by Canadian company WSP Global (TSX: WSP), one of the world’s largest engineering and professional service consulting firms.

• Designed and led quantitative program evaluations for UK Government (DESNZ), including impact assessment, cost-benefit modelling, and cost-effectiveness analysis for the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF) and Net Zero Innovation Program (NZIP).
• Finance lead for the European Commission’s MIP4Adapt programme, developing economic, commercial, and financial business cases, including cashflow modelling, PPP structuring, green bond feasibility, and investor engagement, for climate adaptation infrastructure across the 30+ regions in the EU27.
• Technical lead and quality assurance manager for feasibility and commercial structuring of jurisdictional REDD+ carbon credit transactions in central Brazil, delivering revenue/cost models and contract advice to assess project viability for the LEAF Coalition.

Tenet Advisory & Investments — Director
Jan 2021 – Dec 2024 | Melbourne, Australia

Tenet (formerly known as Sayers) is a leading Australian boutique advisory and investments firm. Tenet was founded in late 2020 and backed by private Australian and US institutional capital. The firm offers bespoke strategic and commercial advice to C-suite executives, boards, and Ministers regarding business and public policy investment decisions.

• Led buy-side M&A strategy for an industry consortium targeting a ~AUD 300m state-significant agricultural asset, covering regulatory and pricing analysis, transaction structuring, asset valuation, and post-deal value creation strategy.
• Led the economic appraisal and cost-benefit analysis of the ~AUD 2bn MCG redevelopment, designing a bespoke benefits framework with Treasury and academic experts, building the CBA model, procuring CGE analysis, and delivering the business case to government and the Minister.
• Built scenario analysis and financial models to estimate the economic impact of infrastructure shutdown in the forestry sector, stress-testing macroeconomic and competitor assumptions to inform government negotiation strategy with the private operator.

Strategy& / PwC Australia — Senior Associate
Mar 2019 – Jan 2021 | Melbourne, Australia

PwC Australia (and its subsidiary Strategy&) is Australia’s largest professional services firm. PwC’s economics and policy teams span a wide commercial and advisory practice in both the public and private sectors.

• Built an econometric land valuation model in R linking native vegetation and carbon sequestration contracts to property prices across Victoria, informing state-level climate finance and land-use policy.
• Led a team building geospatial models from complex vector/raster datasets to determine telco infrastructure locations, informing a Board-level go/no-go decision on AUD 100m+ CAPEX.
• Built COVID-19 macroeconomic stress-testing models for two of Australia’s largest financial institutions, forecasting expected credit loss (ECL) under multiple scenarios and presenting credit risk findings to senior executives.
• Developed financial scenario models and a regulated pricing framework for two Commonwealth agencies including 8-scenario budget modelling for nuclear medicine supply chain (presented to the Minister) and OPEX/CAPEX forecasting for Australia’s first national radioactive waste storage facility.

The University of Queensland — Project Coordinator
Jan 2015 – Mar 2019 | Brisbane, Australia

• Managed production of 70 economics lecture films and authored macroeconomic course content across 13 modules for the university’s largest first-year course.
• Tutorial Coordinator for 1,000+ students across four undergraduate and postgraduate economics courses. Awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award and admitted as Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy.

The Floor — Intern
Nov 2017 – Dec 2017 | Tel Aviv, Israel

The Floor, now part of Entrio, was a fintech startup based out of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The Floor aimed to build common platform infrastructure for digital banking, blockchain, and cybersecurity, backed by the world’s largest financial institutions.

• Conducted venture capital screening of Israeli cybersecurity startups for investment by global retail banks at a fintech accelerator based at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

Education

The University of Queensland — Bachelor of Economics, Bachelor of Science
Brisbane, Australia

• Awarded the UQ International Mobility Scholarship (2018) to research climate adaptation in Hong Kong
• Awarded the Dean’s Commendation for Academic Excellence (2016)
• Awarded the Cromwell College Principal’s Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement (2014)

Tel Aviv University (study abroad) — Silicon Wadi in Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Tel Aviv, Israel

• Awarded the UQ International Mobility Scholarship to support interning at a fintech startup while studying at Tel Aviv University

The London School of Economics (study abroad) — Development Economics
London, United Kingdom

• Awarded the UQ Advantage Scholarship to fund tuition at the LSE while on exchange studying EC307 Development Economics

Professional Memberships

• Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy (UK)
• Member, Economic Society of Australia