Curriculum Vitae

Lead Environmental Risk Modeller

Risilience

• Team Lead for climate and nature risk across leading global brands in food, fashion and entertainment, alongside major asset managers, underwriters and FTSE100 clients.
• Lead the planning and delivery of climate, nature and supply-chain risk models that quantify physical and transition risk in financial terms across multiple sectors.
• Lead the firm’s applied AI work — building agentic workflows that have materially shortened model release cycles, and trialling enterprise LLM tooling for internal research and client-facing analytics.
• Write production code that powers scenario analyses and bespoke client engagements; partner with Head of Product on roadmap and releases.
• Manage a cross-functional team of modellers, economists, data scientists and engineers.

Senior Climate Risk Modeller

Sillion

• Led development of climate risk models for FTSE100 / FTSE250 clients, integrating results into TPT and CSRD reporting and into annual reports across SECR, TCFD/ISSB, CDP and GRI frameworks.
• Built systems to quantify earnings-at-risk under multiple scenarios; provided scenario analyses, transition risk assessments and double materiality insights.
• Built the firm’s first transition-planning dashboard combining economic and climate models, supporting client reporting under TPT, CSRD and CSDDD.
• Product Lead for an ESG research tool tracking KPIs across 600+ companies; integrated outputs into Power BI, Tableau and Excel workflows.
• Drove business growth and recurring contracts via professional networks and strategic partnerships; presented to C-suite, boards and press; trained in press and media handling.
• Built Python-based risk models that integrated directly into financial dashboards.
• Managed and mentored junior analysts and consultants, aligning their work with strategic goals in climate risk and sustainability.
• Featured by the British Science Association as part of their Smashing Stereotypes 2025 campaign for my work in STEM and climate.
• Featured by St Catharine’s College, Cambridge in their Net Zero by 2040 alumni series (Jan 2025).

Net-Zero Data Lead

Bloomberg L.P. (secondment with GFANZ & Climate Data Utility)

• Led data modelling and engineering for the Climate Data Utility (formerly the NZDPU), a free climate-transition data platform.
• Worked for GFANZ to build a climate report model with key stakeholders including Mark Carney (UN Special Envoy at the time).
• Worked with President Emmanuel Macron, the governments of Switzerland and Singapore, CDP, UNFCCC, and other global organisations.
• Managed a team of 40 analysts for GFANZ’s data launch at COP27.
• Built ETL pipelines and APIs ingesting data across hundreds of providers; wrote transformation scripts and data acquisition workflows.
• Co-authored two reports for GFANZ and NZDPU with partners from ISSB and IEA.
• Helped secure the CDP partnership bringing 10,000+ companies onto the platform.
• Supported the CTO on RFP processes, vendor evaluation and management of engineering contractors; helped author the NZDPU RFP.
• Delivered briefs on 700 climate KPIs used in Michael Bloomberg’s keynote address for COP27.
• Subject-matter expert on Scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emission models, global reporting standards and jurisdictional policies.

Climate Science Researcher

University of Cambridge & British Antarctic Survey

• Fully-funded research at the Scott Polar Research Institute on atmospheric drivers of Antarctic surface melt.
• Analysed 1.7 billion geospatial data points across CMIP5 GCMs, RCMs and in-situ observations from NOAA and Copernicus (ESA).
• Developed a Convolutional Neural Network and ran EOF analysis to identify seasonal melt patterns; published findings and presented at conferences.
• Tech stack: Python, xarray, pandas/geopandas, scipy, pyproj, netCDF, HDF5, rasterio, GDAL, Shapely, sklearn, EOF, fiona, plotly, cartopy, matplotlib.
• Featured on Cambridge’s official channels; my work is used as course material in MPhil-level teaching.
• Supervised by Dr Amélie Kirchgaessner (British Antarctic Survey) and Professor Ian Willis (Scott Polar Research Institute).

Brand Manager, Sustainability

P.G.A. Hospitality

• Worked as an independent contractor with the CEO to drive sustainable business development; led a team of 10.
• Achieved significant growth: increased revenue by 233%, raised CAD 1.5M in investment, increased profits by 31%.
• Proactively secured contracts with local, sustainable suppliers to mitigate supply chain challenges during the pandemic.
• Developed business plans, marketing materials and seasonal menus.
• Wrote and won an RFP bid for a new location.
• Earned 9 awards and a position in Greater Vancouver’s Top 30 cafes.

Lead Teaching Assistant, Computer Science

University of British Columbia

• Managed a team of 18 TAs as Head Teaching Assistant of Computer Science.
• Ran labs and lectures for 1,000 students in Python and C++; created and graded course modules and labs; awarded Best TA three years running.
• Helped pilot a new data science course; authored modules on Climate Data Computing and contrast stretching using open-source satellite imagery.

Research Assistant, Atmospheric Science

University of British Columbia

• Worked across multiple research labs in the Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences department.
• Studied glacial katabatic winds and cloud-street formation over Greenland using MODIS, GOES-16/17 and Landsat 7/8 imagery and ECMWF reanalysis data.
• Built ETL pipelines on AWS EC2/S3; ran GOES data via Jupyter notebooks on EC2 instances pulling from NOAA’s S3 bucket.
• Applied PCA, Sobel edge detection, Self-Organizing Maps and CNNs to mesoscale convection problems and melt-season streamflow detection across Canada.
• Conducted eddy-covariance measurements during the Buckley Bay wildfires; tested diffused-radiation fertilization against NASA AOD data (contributed to McKendry et al., 2019).
• Collected, identified and analysed phytoplankton in the Burrard Inlet; studied distribution, chlorophyll levels and carbon-sink role.
• Constructed and set up weather sensors to study blue carbon and the urban heat island effect; trained on calibrating and maintaining meteorological field instruments to WMO standards.

Geospatial Engineer

UAViation Aerial Solutions

• Team Lead for the software team responsible for flight-automation app development.
• Project Lead on LiDAR drone mapping operations and GIS post-processing across BC, Alberta and Yukon.
• CEO’s right hand in client meetings; my work contributed to a successful exit (acquired by Volatus Aerospace).
• Worked with Android Studio, REST APIs, Google Maps API and DJI’s UX SDK; used Pix4D, ArcGIS and QGIS for geospatial post-processing.
• Used C++, Java and Python to tackle photogrammetry and LiDAR flight-mapping problems.
• Delivered 18 projects in 12 months for government, search-and-rescue, BC Wildfire Services, natural resource sectors, academia and private industry.

Board Member, Revenue Generation

Compassionate Eye Foundation

• Serve on the board of a global charity to develop and deliver a revenue generation strategy aligned with CEF’s long-term vision.
• Help build strategy to deliver projects supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals and improve standard and cost of living at a grassroots level.
• Research, identify and apply for grants, trusts and major funding opportunities.
• Build and maintain relationships with key donors, corporate sponsors and stakeholders.
• Explore new revenue streams; work closely with communications and project teams to support funding applications.

Co-Organiser & DEI Lead

Polar Impact

• Co-ran an NGO supporting BIPOC professionals in the polar research community.
• Helped write grant proposals that won a cumulative £50,000 from the National Science Foundation, UKRI and National Geographic.
• Organised COP26 climate-justice speaker panels.
• Featured in St Catharine’s College alumni publications for this work.

MPhil in Polar Studies (Atmospheric Physics)

University of Cambridge, St Catharine's College

• Scott Polar Scholarship: full scholarship awarded to the top applicant.
• Dissertation: investigating atmospheric drivers of surface melt on the George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica, over 32 years; analysed up to 1,734,576,480 geospatial data points; built a CNN and EOF analysis to predict clustered weather patterns influencing melt.

BSc in Atmospheric Science

University of British Columbia

• Graduated top of class.
• Dean’s Honour Roll (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020).
• Ministry of Education and BC Excellence Scholarships (top 10% of students starting post-secondary education in British Columbia).
• Undergraduate thesis (score 93%): significance of glacial katabatic winds on cloud formation over Greenland, using MODIS, Landsat 7/8 and GOES-16/17 imagery, image clustering, PCA, Sobel edge detection, neural networks and Self-Organizing Maps. Supervised by Dr Ian McKendry.

Scott Polar Scholarship

University of Cambridge

Full scholarship awarded to the top applicant for the MPhil in Polar Studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute.

Dean's Honour Roll (4 consecutive years)

University of British Columbia

Awarded for scoring above 85% — 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.

Best Teaching Assistant Award (3 consecutive years)

University of British Columbia

Awarded 2018, 2019, 2020.

Ministry of Education Scholarship

Government of Canada

Top 25% of students starting post-secondary education in Canada.

BC Excellence Scholarship

Government of British Columbia

Top 10% of students starting post-secondary education in British Columbia.

Western University Entrance Scholarship

Western University

Bronze Medal — Canadian National Science Fair

Youth Science Canada

Gold Medal — Vancouver Provincial Science Fair

Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair

Chief Judge Award — Vancouver Provincial Science Fair

Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair

UBC Engineering Physics Award — Vancouver Provincial Science Fair

University of British Columbia

Top 25 — Pascal Mathematics Contest

Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing

Smashing Stereotypes 2025 — British Science Association profile

British Science Association

Profile feature on my work in STEM and climate as part of the BSA’s annual Smashing Stereotypes campaign.

Tackling Eco-Anxiety — invited guest blog

British Science Association (Mental Health Awareness Month)

Invited authored guest blog for the BSA on eco-anxiety and sustaining climate work.

Net Zero by 2040 Alumni Series

St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge

Featured in the third instalment of the College’s alumni series on net zero strategy and climate careers.

Amplifying Diversity in Polar Exploration

St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge

Profile on co-organising Polar Impact and on doing polar science from a less typical background.

Recommendations and Guidance on Financial Institution Net-Zero Transition Plans (co-author)

GFANZ

Development of the Net-Zero Data Public Utility (co-author)

NZDPU / Bloomberg