London
2008 – 2017
Ten years operating francophone programmes inside anglophone institutional environments. SALTO-YOUTH accredited trainer for the European Commission across seventeen youth-mobility domains. Twelve years of Erasmus+ delivery across six European jurisdictions: the UK, France, Germany, Poland, the Balkans, the Nordics. The work was always the same underneath: making European institutional requirements legible to local delivery teams who operated in a different language, a different administrative tradition, and under a different set of pressures. This is where the translation faculty was built.
Dakar
2018 – 2019
15 partners
3 donors
18 months of reporting collapse
Recovered in 6
Coordination of a fifteen-partner DFID-UKAID consortium. Eighteen months of reporting delay inherited on arrival; three donors' confidence eroded. Restored in six months. The consortium's structural problem was not technical; it was that the partners could not read each other's institutional logic. The coordination work was translation work at the inter-organisational scale. Founded Niamato Consulting during this period to formalise EU programme engineering as an independent practice.
Bordeaux
2022 – present
Wrote institutional analysis from the front desk of a two-hundred-room hotel. The institutions read it. Voted best employee across the entire hotel group, 2024; launched The Practitioner's Read from the reception counter. The distance between this post and the analytical work it produces is the subject of Issue 11.
