What I offer
Building economic safety
I help build women's economic safety by providing expertise on economic abuse, undertaking research and consultancy and connecting stakeholders globally.
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Experiences
Founder of Surviving Economic Abuse
I set up the UK charity which I led as founding CEO between Jan 2017-May 2024. I pioneered innovative, practice, policy, regulatory & legislative responses to the issue. This includes economic abuse being named & defined in the Domestic Abuse Act (2021) + the criminalisation of post-separation abuse
Expert Advisor, International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group)
The Empower Finance Alliance unites 9 pioneering financial institutions collectively serving over 30 million customers from 5 countries in Asia and the Pacific to address the financial impacts of gender-based violence.
Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
For services to victims of domestic and economic abuse (2020 Queen's Birthday Honours)
Author of Understanding and Responding to Economic Abuse
Understanding and Responding to Economic Abuse exposes the many ways in which abusers seek to control their intimate partners through economic resources. It shines a light on a form of coercive and controlling behaviour which has been invisible for too long.
