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EMPLOYMENT
HISTORY
United Nations World Food Programme (Myanmar and Regional Bureau Bangkok)
Senior Protection and Gender Advisor (P4)
April 2020 to October 2022; December 2022 to date
75% support for Myanmar including conflict, persecution, pandemic and poverty-affected populations
25% support for Regional Bureau including guidance of protection and gender advisors across the region
Deployed through RedR Australia (April to July 2020) and direct with WFP (August 2020 onwards), partly in-country and partly remotely due to COVID-19 and family health
United Nations World Food Programme (Cameroon)
Senior Operations Officer (P4)
September 2019 to December 2019
Anglophone crisis: emergency field work, capacity strengthening staff and partners
Office of the President in Kiribati
Legal Expert
February 2019 to June 2019
Deployed through RedR Australia
Facilitation and drafting of Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Act 2019
United Nations World Food Programme (Headquarters)
Senior Protection Field Support Advisor
August 2018 to December 2018
Working in headquarters and missions to Timor Leste, Nepal, Central African Republic, Philippines and Sri Lanka, on protection, gender and accountability to affected people
United Nations World Food Programme (Bangladesh)
Protection Advisor (P5)
October 2017 to December 2017; March 2018 to May 2018
Deployed through RedR Australia
Supporting human rights protection in Rohingya crisis response
UN Women (Fiji Multi-Country Office)
Gender and Protection Specialist (P4)
January to July 2017
Deployed through RedR Australia
A regional role based in the Fiji Multi-Country Office, including field missions in Fiji, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands
United Nations World Food Programme (Laos)
Regional Protection Advisor (P4)
June – December 2015 and August – December 2016
Deployed through RedR Australia
Protection, gender and accountability to affected populations. Included protection and gender analysis, review of country operation, incorporation in tools and processes, training, in-field support and beneficiary awareness/feedback
Western Sydney University School of Law
Consultant and Adjunct Fellow
Human Rights Law lecturing; First Year Law Curriculum Review Consultant
January to July 2016; July to December 2019; ongoing Adjunct
United Nations World Food Programme (Middle East)
Regional Protection Advisor (P4)
April to November 2014
Deployed through RedR Australia
Based in Jordan with mission travel, assisting mainstreaming protection in Syria crisis response for Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt and Turkey. Included protection analysis and advice, inter-agency representation/liaison, and incorporation of gender and accountability to affected populations
United Nations World Food Programme (Philippines)
Protection Officer (P4)
November to December 2013
Emergency protection response working across all Super Typhoon Haiyan affected areas, including representation of WFP in the Protection Cluster, training and mentoring of field monitors, field visits, stakeholder liaison and strategy development
United Nations World Food Programme (Afghanistan)
Gender and Protection Officer (P4)
February to September 2013
In Kabul, Afghanistan, human rights protection for conflict and natural-disaster affected people experiencing severe food insecurity
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Philippines) Humanitarian Affairs Officer (P3)
April 2012 to January 2013
Deployed through RedR Australia
In Cotabato City in Mindanao in southern Philippines, undertaking contingency planning, needs assessments and Humanitarian Action Plan (HAP) 2012 Mid-Year Review and HAP 2013
In Manila and Davao emergency response to Typhoon Bhopa
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (South Sudan)
Policy Officer (P3)
September 2011 to October 2011
In Juba, focusing on strategy, cluster support, and the consolidated appeals process
University of Western Sydney School of Law
Senior Lecturer
January 2009 to March 2012
Law academic; Introduction to Law and coaching moot teams.
Faculty Administrative Positions : First Year Coordinator/Advisor, School Academic Committee, Jessup International Law Moot coach, Member of Expert Advisory Group on the First Year Experience, voluntary assistance, Parramattta Community Justice Clinic, 2010 and Coordinator of Clinical Legal Placement 2012
Clayton Utz
National Legal Education Manager
Three months consultancy (April to July 2008)
To develop a national approach to legal education in a national law firm comprising 1800 lawyers. Involved strategic planning, liaison with partners and staff, developing career attributes framework and national curriculum documents
University of Technology Sydney
Associate Lecturer 2003-4, Lecturer 2005-8
Five years (February 2003 to April 2008)
Law academic including Legal Process and History (LLB), International Commercial Dispute Resolution (Masters), International Commercial Arbitration (Masters), International Trade Law (Masters), International Legal Studies (Cross-disciplinary), WTO Law (Masters), International Advocacy and Mooting (LLB). Director of Undergraduate Programs 2004-5; Chair of Undergraduate Programs Committee 2004-5; Chair of Examination Review Committee 2004; Chair of Results Ratification Committee 2005; Responsible Academic Officer 2004-5. Academic Member of Residence Management Committee 2004-6, Member of Leadership Group, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre 2007, coach Jessup International Moot and ELSA Moot on WTO Law
Life by Design
Consultant Trainer
December 2001 to June 2003
Corporate training in work life balance with clients such as Westpac, negotiation and drafting of contracts,
website development. Ghost author of 52 Strategies to Work Life Balance, see http://www.lifebydesign.com.au/public/products/52strategies.html
Blake Dawson Waldron
Solicitor
September 1998 to June 2001
Lawyer in Trade and Transport Group, involved litigation mostly in Federal Court and Supreme Court,
negotiation, mediation, arbitration, some contract drafting
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Boards and committees
Member of Academic Board of National Academy of Professional Studies, 2018 to date
Member of International Humanitarian Law Committee, Australian Red Cross, 2011-2018
Member of Editorial Board of Australian Journal of Clinical Education, 2016 to date
Executive Editor of the Legal Education Review 2013-2016; Editor in Chief 2009 -12; Production Editor 2007-8
Associate Editor of the Legal Education Digest, 2006 to 2015
Member of Board of Directors, Academy of Music and Performing Arts, 2016; Academic Board, 2012-6
Member of Academic Board, JMC Academy, 2011 to 2014
Associate Director of NSW Centre for Legal Education, 2006 to 2015
Member of the Australasian Law Teachers Association Executive, 2007 to 2012
Member of Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators, 2011-12
Member of Raffles College of Design and Commerce (RCDC) Council 2007-2009; External Mediator 2007-9; Chair of Ethics Committee 2008-10
Chair, Executive Committee of the Owners Corporation of Strata Plan 63380 2001-12 (except when overseas)
Academic Member of NSW Bar Association Professional Conduct Committee 2004-8
Convenor of Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy Interest Group for Australasian Law Teachers’ Association (ALTA) 2003-7
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Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) project 'Learning to Think Like A Lawyer with
Nickolas James, Rachael Field and Lisa Westcott 2010-11
Pro bono lawyer, Lawyers Without Borders, Freetown Sierra Leone, December 2009 – January 2010
Conducted a rule of law needs analysis, drafted a country brief, provided continuing legal training to barristers on resolving international commercial disputes, guest lectures in international trade law at University of Sierra Leone, and public lectures through the Sierra Leone Institute for International Law. Ongoing involvement in establishing a mooting program and law clinic.
Guest lecturer, Viadrina European University, Germany, November – December 2008.
Teaching intensive electives International Commercial Negotiation and Dispute Resolution and International Trade and Financial Law
Neutral Trial Observation in Namibia, Lawyers Without Borders, February to April 2008.
Work on the Caprivi High Treason trial in Windhoek Prison.
Research on African experience of the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement System, July to October 2006
Interviews with trade ministry officials in sixteen countries plus NGOs and at WTO in Geneva
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Vienna, January to April 2000
Research work on international commercial arbitration, cross-border insolvency, comparative legislative analysis, transport law
Homeshare: Editor, Homeshare International newsletter, 2006 to 2012; Chair, Homeshare NSW Advisory Committee to the Benevolent Society of NSW, 1997 to 2007; now ‘Friends of Homeshare’; Convenor, Homeshare Steering Committee NSW 1997, Victoria 1998
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Achievements
College of Business Award UWS 2011 with Dr Susan Armstrong ‘For aligned, holistic and multi-dimensional strategies that encourage engagement and enhance the transition of first year law students grounded on “best practices” in transition pedagogy’
Commendation for UTS Teaching Award 2005
Volunteer Award with Benevolent Society of NSW 2001
Olympic Torch Bearer 2000
Achievement nomination for Young Australian of the Year Award 2000
Admitted to practice in the High Court of Australia 1999
Admitted to practice in the New South Wales Supreme Court 1999
Alumni Achievement Award for contribution to the University 1999
Dean’s Special Award for Outstanding Service to the Law Faculty 1998
Corrs Chambers Westgarth prize in International Trade Law 1997
Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award 1996; Bronze Award 1987