From 1994 to 1997 she worked promoting micro-enterprise development in Zanzibar as a Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute. From 1997 to 2001 she was economist and co-author of the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report, writing chapters on globalization, new technologies, resource consumption and human rights. From 2002 to 2013 she was a Senior Researcher at Oxfam.[2] She is currently a Senior Research Associate, Tutor and Advisory Board member of the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford.[3][4] She is also a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.[5]