First-class law graduate, ranked top 5%. Clifford Chance award winner. Published on law and economics. Currently building and managing legal and agentic AI projects at Mercor, one of the world’s largest AI training vendors. CV available upon request.

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PROFESSIONAL TRAJECTORY

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Mercor · Project Manager

Aug 2025 – Present

Mercor

Project Manager

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Achievements
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Clifford Chance Competition Excellence Award (2025)

Awarded for placing first out of 80 and writing the best paper, as selected by a Clifford Chance partner and senior lawyer. The paper analyses EU and UK merger regulation in innovation-driven markets, focusing on under-enforcement risks and the evolving role of digital competition frameworks such as the DMA and DMCC.

linkDOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5358421

Managing Director, Oakwood Student Fund

Leading investment strategy and student-led fund management operations within the Oakwood initiative.

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Working Papers

Minimum Wage and Crime: Evidence from the UK

Examines the relationship between minimum wage increases and crime using Becker’s economic model and empirical evidence from the UK and US, showing that wage rises can reduce crime where employment effects remain stable, but may increase it where labour market opportunities are weakened.

linkDOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5350771

The Singapore Convention and the Future of the New York Convention

Analyses whether the Singapore Convention on Mediation is likely to rival the New York Convention, concluding that structural limitations mean it will act as a complementary enforcement mechanism rather than displacing arbitration’s dominant role.

linkDOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5350771