She joined the UK Government’s Stabilisation Unit as a Deployable Civilian Expert in late 2017 and has been an advisor to multiple UK government Conflict, Security and Stability Fund (CSSF) programmes.

She has wide-ranging expertise on performance measurement and evaluation on interventions to counter organised immigration crime, illicit goods smuggling and child sexual abuse exploitation, for example setting up multi-agency and multi-country M&E systems for actors including the UK’s Home Office, National Crime Agency and Crown Prosecution Service. She has advised on, evaluated or established monitoring and evaluation systems for overseas activities of the UK Ministry of Defence, Dutch and UK counter terrorism and narcotics policing programmes in regions and countries including the Western Balkans, Lebanon and Baltic states and Afghanistan. Lola has recently led training and mentoring for the Georgian Ministry of Defence on operationalising and measuring professional development opportunities for female recruits. 

Before 2017, Lola was a director in a research and M&E firm based in Afghanistan, where she designed and led a wide range of assignments including evaluations of progammes spanning rule of law reform, education and health and conflict sensitivity studies for extractive companies and oversaw a team of 30+ staff. She subsequently set up and ran the firm’s operations in Mali where inter alia she oversaw a strategic review of the UN Stabilisation Mission Peace Building Fund.

Lola holds an MA in International Security and a BA in Political Sciences from Sciences Po, Paris.

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