I am an international lawyer specialized in sustainable development. As founder and director of TULIP Consulting, a boutique, Geneva-based consulting firm, I advise the public sector on complex legal and policy issues at the trade, environment, and development nexus. Clients include the WTO, OECD, ITC, UNEP, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, ministries/government agencies, the African Climate Fund, and various NGOs. I am also a senior researcher at the think tank Europe Jacques Delors, and a research fellow at the London School of Economics’ Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa. In addition, I am a visiting lecturer in international law at the Graduate Institute (IHEID), where I annually teach the TradeLab International Economic Law Clinic. 

Previously, I worked for four years as an international trade associate at Sidley Austin’s international dispute settlement practice in Geneva, representing governments in their disputes at the World Trade Organization. I have also served as Sidley Austin’s Pro Bono Director for the Trade and Development Initiative, a program I founded. Other past experience includes representing Cambodian genocide victims at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia; representing Brazilian inmates at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; working on anti-corruption issues for the World Bank Integrity Vice Presidency; analyzing the agricultural policy landscape for Acumen in India; and exploring documentary journalism for NGOs in the Philippines and Peru.

I hold a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College, and am a member of the New York Bar. I have published widely on trade, the environment, and development. I speak fluent Dutch (native) and English, and have good proficiency in French and Spanish.