My background

I am an admitted barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. My research and practice sit at the intersection of global health law, economic and commercial determinants of health, and the international legal frameworks that shape both. I work across WHO FCTC implementation and other legal instruments for public health protection, noncommunicable disease law and policy, business and human rights, pharmaceutical access and intellectual property, and sexual and reproductive health and rights.

My professional and academic background is in law, policy and international relations, with education spanning leading universities in Auckland, Hong Kong, Washington DC, London and Geneva. My full-time work life has been split between the World Health Organization and the O’Neill Institute, where I have been able to put my training to work on issues of legal and regulatory design, litigation defence, governance and political economy, human rights, international negotiations, and global normative development.

My home base is Aotearoa New Zealand, but I usually spend more than half of any given year travelling between London, India, Europe and the United States. Please do reach out if you would like to speak with me online or arrange a time to meet in person.

Education

MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing (2022–2023). Joint degree between the London School of Economics and Political Science and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
LL.M. (honours) Global Health Law and International Institutions (2018–2020). Georgetown University Law Center and the Geneva Graduate Institute.
LL.B. exchange, Centre for Transnational Legal Studies (2017). Hosted by Georgetown Law and King’s College London.
LL.B. exchange, The University of Hong Kong (2016). Prime Minister’s Scholarship for Asia.
BA/LL.B. (hons.) (2012–2018). University of Auckland. Double major in Politics and International Relations and History.

Selected awards and honours

Prime Minister’s Scholarship for Asia (2016).
Shortland Chambers Prize in Public Law (2014).
First in course: Human Rights Clinic (2017); Medico-Legal Problems (2015); American Politics and Public Policy (2015); Public Law (2013); Ocean Law (2017).
Shortlisted, Legal Research Foundation Undergraduate Paper Award (2016).