A portrait at Saïd Business School, Oxford,
April 2024 during Skoll World Forum
Weaving trust infrastructures for resilient food systems in Myanmar and beyond.
A nature-inspired systems thinker exploring how biology, community, and design can reimagine the future of resilience and governance — starting from food.
I work at the intersection of biology, trust, and community. In a time of deep fragmentation, I contribute to the design of practical systems that restore safety, regenerate relationships, and help rebuild the invisible infrastructure societies depend on: trust.
My journey began with food — supporting farmers and food producers in Myanmar to produce safer, better products. Over time, it became clear: food is more than nourishment. It is a network of trust that holds communities together. Through platforms like MILS, CSAID, SBN and the Trust As Infrastructure initiative, I continue exploring how nature’s principles can guide us in reimagining governance, science, and society itself.
“Involving smallholders will democratize the supply chains and drives climate justice forward.”
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The Black Sea Grain Initiative highlighted how vulnerable our food and fertilizer supply chains are and how easy it is to weaponize food for political agendas. Diversification of food sources in global south countries via smallholder farmers, as I call “South-Shoring,” will deter the future weaponization of food and democratize supply chains globally. Part of the climate justice debate is the conversation around the equitable distribution of resources, especially financial resources from global monetary institutions. Retrofitting or overhauling agricultural systems to be climate-smart is extremely ...
