Here’s some information about my experience outside politics and in the Labour Party.

OUTSIDE EXPERIENCE

 

Policy Manager, Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, 2019 – present 

• Work to protect victims of human trafficking, refugees and asylum seekers

 

Research Fellow, Institute of Public Policy Research, 2015 - 2019

• Published high-profile research with progressive policy ideas to reform the immigration system and improve the skills of Scotland’s workforce 

 

Save the Children, 2014 – 2015, 

• Campaigned to improve the lives of impoverished children in the UK and around the world 

 

Foreign Office, 2011 – 2014

• Attaché for justice and home affairs at the British Embassy in Paris

• Represented the UK on trade policy at the OECD

• Worked to protect British Nationals overseas

 

Office of Harriet Harman MP, 2009 – 2011 

• In Deputy Leader’s team for 2010 General Election

• Supported Acting Leader of the Party, 2010

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Shawlands Academy, local comprehensive school in Glasgow

BA Modern Languages, Oxford University

MSc European Studies, London School of Economics

Master in Public Administration, Harvard University 

 

 

VOLUNTARY WORK

 

Chair of the Board, Refugee Survival Trust, Glasgow (2017-2022)

Advisory Council Member, These Islands Thinktank (2019-present)

Advisory Board Member, Labour for a European Future (2016-2019)

 

 

LABOUR PARTY EXPERIENCE

 

Party Member, 2006 – present

Activist in Edinburgh Northern & Leith CLP, 2021 – present

• CLP Policy officer 

Activist in Edinburgh Central CLP, 2017 - 2021

• CLP Policy Officer

• CLP LGBT+ Officer

 

Campaigner in Scottish referendum, EU referendum

Campaigner in all council, Holyrood and Westminster elections since I joined

Election agent achieving a 19% swing to Labour, 2010

 

Party staff: assistant to Harriet Harman, Deputy Leader, 2009 – 2011

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Trade union: member of Unison, previously UNITE workplace rep, head of trade union at British Embassy in Paris 

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