I’m a historian who wandered into policy and then built a few companies. I read archives, model data, and ship tools that help governments and markets behave like adults. My sweet spot: where messy history meets real-world rules and cash flow.

Open government, digital identity, and financial inclusion.

Procurement analytics, interoperability standards, and risk tools for fintech.

Evidence reviews for laws on competition, data protection, and public procurement.

I studied history and political science, then doubled down on economic history and public policy. The archives taught me patience; datasets taught me to prove it. I moved from papers to pilots when I realized good ideas die without working code and a budget line.

A playbook for setting up independent regulators after crises.

A procurement dashboard that spots cartel-friendly tenders.

Risk models for lenders serving underbanked sectors.

Interoperability pilots for digital IDs that actually talk to each other.

Mixed methods: interviews + archives + time-series.

Reproducible analysis, open docs when clients allow.

Zero fluff: separate “what happened” from “what we should do.”

Trustworthy AI in public services (audits that bite, not brochures).

Cross-border payments that don’t punish small firms.

Climate risk in infrastructure tenders (price signals > slogans).