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Thesis title
'Banking on rights: the ubiquity of financial architecture as IHRL’s blind spot'
Supervisors
Professor Stephen Humphreys, Dr Alperen Gözlügöl
About
I am a researcher, campaigner, and aid worker. My professional experience includes founding a social enterprise campaigning for refugee rights, working in development finance, and working for the UN, iNGOs, and campaigning organisations in various senior leadership roles. My aid work gave me the privilege of travel, with deployments in Afghanistan, DR Congo, Haiti, Iraq, Lebanon, Moldova, Palestine (West Bank and Gaza), Somalia, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen. My work has profoundly shaped my research interests which tend to circle around the nexus of what powers shape our reality and what international law professes to do. I hold a BA from Cambridge in Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies, and a MSc from Oxford in International Human Rights Law, graduating from both institutions with the highest mark in my cohort.
Research interests
I am interested in what is unspoken in international law. My current research interrogates whether international law can respond to the entrenchment of financialised capitalism that has made the accoutrements of finance (a sovereign credit risk rating, availability of correspondent banking services, the trust of the bond markets) a condition for the enjoyment of human rights. Does international law "see" these preconditions for human rights? And if it does, has it unknowingly (or knowingly!) endorsed the logic of financialised capitalism?
Awards & scholarships
Academic awards and scholarships:
- Cambridge Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Faculty Prize for highest mark in cohort (2018), Robinson College Cambridge JP-Morgan Scholarship for academic excellence (2018), Cambridge Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Faculty Prize for highest mark in cohort (2020), Robinson College Cambridge Senior Scholarship for academic excellence (2020), Robinson College Cambridge Linton Seu-Kwan Chu Prize for academic excellence and contribution to college life (2020), Oxford Professor Christof Heyns Memorial Prize for highest overall mark (2024)
Non-academic:
- Forbes 30 under 30 (2022)