I study the structural logic of paradox. My focus is on 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 of non-coincidence: 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. It formalises what systems already depend on yet acknowledge tangentially, convert into tension, or externalise as dysfunction.

In parallel to this theoretical work, I examine how societies organise themselves to progress across economic, ecological, technological, and cultural transitions. These studies focus on 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, the research centre I direct. In collaboration with grassroots organisations, I observe how development and its meanings are constructed, negotiated, and translated across institutional settings without being reduced to dominant development logics. This work is grounded in participatory and ethnographic methods.

Current teaching appointments include postgraduate and undergraduate modules in Business ethics, Sustainability, and Strategy. My academic foundations include Development economics (MSc) and Politics and international relations (BA) at Kings College London, and doctoral studies in Management science and Organisational theory at École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, Panthéon Sorbonne I. My research interests are indirectly informed by prior professional experience in strategy roles across corporate, nonprofit, and government sectors, particularly in the context of social and environmental development.