The critical transitions societies are striving for—such as the decarbonisation of energy and materials systems, the integration of artificial intelligence into knowledge production and decision-making infrastructures, and the reconfiguration of cultural identities in response to migration and demographic change—are examples of the broader systemic transformations unfolding under the premise of development. My work focuses on how organised society conceptualises, configures, and enacts these various types of transitions under conditions of value plurality and institutional dissonnance, with attention to the institutional arrangements, discursive frameworks, and material practices that shape their trajectories.

In my studies of the structural logic of system-level paradox, I look at how systems (conceptual, institutional, and cultural) operate through the organisation of internal contradiction and the performance of coherence. This work unfolds as a three-volume project including; first, a study of paradox as the structuring logic of language, institution, and theory; second, a study of the recursive forms through which systems can inhabit contradiction while it remains constitutive to their operation; third, a study of development as a system that performs progress through the appearance of value alignment in the presence of irreducible conflict, with development as its operative form.

This project holds contradiction as the baseline condition from which systems derive legibility, operation, and form. It does not aim to offer new insights but to formalise what systems already depend on yet acknowledge tangentially, convert into tension, or externalise as dysfunction.

In parallel to this theoretical work, I study how actors navigate systemic transformation while managing tensions between plural, conflicting value regimes that are moral, ideological, and institutionally encoded. This line of work extends my inquiry into paradox by analysing development as a multi-scalar negotiation of value conflict, carried out through Plural, a research centre that uses ethnograpic film as a co-evolving epistemological device and means of theoretical intervention to observe how development and its meanings are constructed, negotiated, and translated across institutional settings without being reduced to dominant development logics.

My academic foundations include Development economics (MSc) and Politics and international relations (BA) at Kings College London, Sustainability studies at University of Cambridge, and doctoral studies in Management science and Organisational theory at École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, Panthéon Sorbonne I.

Current teaching appointments include postgraduate modules in Strategy, Business ethics, Sustainability management and International business. Industry experience spans various strategy roles in corporate and nonprofit organisations. Writing commissions by business media, think tanks, and advocacy groups are ongoing.