Q&A: Building a Global Career Across Sectors

Hi everyone — excited to be part of this community and to contribute as a mentor. My career has been fairly non-linear and has taken me across the public, private, multilateral, and non-profit sectors, with work spanning global operations, strategy, international development, and health systems across different parts of the world. I’ve had the opportunity to work across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and North America, and one thing I’ve learned is that careers are often much less linear than they appear from the outside.

A lot of my work today sits at the intersection of operations, leadership, global health, and cross-sector collaboration. I’m particularly interested in how organizations operate effectively under constraints, how to build systems and teams across cultures, and what it means to lead thoughtfully in increasingly complex environments. I’m also happy to speak candidly about navigating ambiguity, international careers, transitions between sectors, graduate school decisions, and figuring things out in your 20s and 30s while the world keeps changing around you.

Happy to answer questions about career pivots, international work, leadership, operations, development, global health, or anything else that may be useful. Looking forward to the conversation and to learning from others here too.