An international law scholar and public policy practitioner who serves as a Nonresident Scholar with the Global Order and Institutions Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, having previously served as the inaugural British Academy Global Innovation Fellow.
Her research and advisory portfolio focuses on United States foreign, defense, and security policy, transatlantic security dynamics, laws of armed conflict, international criminal law, and global accountability frameworks. In her policy advisory capacity, she counsels governments, international bodies, and parliamentary committees—including the House of Commons Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees and the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee—on civilian protection, atrocity prevention strategies, and public international law.
She has also served as Master of Ceremony for the Defense Track at the Warsaw Security Forum. Her academic career includes appointments at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, where she served as Deputy Director of the Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict (ELAC) and Director of the Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security.
She previously held research and fellowship positions at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. For over a decade, she has served as a senior officer within the International Bar Association, holding leadership roles across its War Crimes Committee, Forum of Government and Public Lawyers, and Rule of Law Forum. She also sits on the advisory board of the Ferencz International Justice Initiative at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.