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Our advisors can provide you with a real insight into their profession and support you through all stages of the application process including career guidance, CV and job application support, tailored interview preparation and professional skill development. 

Some of our professionals are listed below and there are many others in the Silverpen network. Get in touch today and we will find you the perfect fit.

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United kingdom

public sector

Government & Intelligence
Dr Claire Yau
Government & International development
Sophia Antoniou
Government & Human Rights
Leonard Lewis

legal sector

Government Regulatory
Ruba Noorali
Private practice
Khan Kassam

Financial Sector

International Trust & Corporate Services
Samuel Dustow

International

Technology sector

Management Consulting
Jennifer Jewitt
Customer Success Consulting
Rafael Koukkoullis

Healthcare Sector

Clinical Psychology
Dafne Morroni
Biological Research
Luis Jimenez
Behavioural Psychology
Dr. Maria Stavrou

Public sector

United Nations & international cooperation
Lorenzo Daniele
Development & communications
Joanna Choblet

Education Sector

International Law
Jack Friberg
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Dr Claire Yau

Relevant Industries

Public Policy, UK Government, Research, Intelligence, Academia, Law

Professional Background

  • Senior policy, analytical and intelligence professional across UK Government, working with internal and external stakeholders from HMG, policing, community faith groups, NGOs and academia.
  • Led high-level projects to fill evidence gaps through research, collated and analysed data and delivered research findings to senior ministers.
  • Conducted interviews within government, reviewed applications and gathered knowledge on Civil Service behaviours.
  • Mentored individuals through reverse mentoring, providing feedback to encourage professional development and career growth.
  • As Vice Chair of the Civil Service LGBT+ and Minority Ethnic strand at the UK Government, helped create an inclusive, diverse and safe workspace.
  • PhD in Cyber Terrorism and International Law from the University of Sheffield, with experience teaching law students.
  • Fluent in Cantonese and conversational in Mandarin.

Professional Advisory Services

  • PhD application support
  • CV writing, job application & cover letter support
  • LinkedIn profile writing
  • Internships & work experience application guidance
  • Tailored interview preparation, mock interviews & feedback (including STAR approach)
  • Industry & professional career insight
  • Job search & career plan strategy
  • Job contract & salary negotiation
  • Networking opportunities
  • Networking skills, presentation skills, communication skills & confidence coaching
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Sophia Antoniou

Relevant Industries

Foreign Policy, International Development, Trade and Investment in Emerging Markets, UK Government, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)

Professional Background

  • Head of African Investment and Business in the Department for Business and Trade, leading on African business delivery and engagement for the UK Africa Investment Summit 2024, directing policy research, advising key leaders and leading junior colleagues on briefings, policy papers and programme deliverables
  • Previously a Senior International Policy Advisor in the UK Civil Service dealing with foreign policy, international negotiations and strategy and a Justice of the Peace (Magistrate).
  • Led large, international teams to deliver aid programs in developing nations as a project manager for global advisory companies and government bodies.
  • Interviewed candidates for the civil service diversity internship programme and mentored junior civil servants.
  • MSc in Development Studies from SOAS, University of London and Law LLB from University of Exeter.
  • Fluent in Greek and advanced in French.

Professional Advisory Services

  • CV writing
  • Career coaching & guidance
  • Career plan & job search strategy
  • Industry and professional career insight
  • Negotiation skills, presentation skills & communication skills coaching
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Leonard Lewis

Relevant Industries

UK Government, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Foreign and Defence Policy, Human Rights Policy and Research. 

Professional Background

  • Stabilisation and Security Sector Reform Advisor at the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office.
  • Previously a Senior Policy Advisor in the UK Ministry of Defence.
  • Previously worked at a UK Human Rights NGO, managing human rights projects and leading on policy with a focus on the Human Rights Act.
  • Taught domestic and international human rights law to students at Queen Mary University.
  • Published articles on human rights and international law for the Human Security Centre.
  • LLM in International Law from University College London and Law LLB from King’s College London.

Professional Advisory Services

  • CV writing, UK Civil Service job application & covering letter support
  • Internships & work experience application guidance
  • Tailored UK Civil Service interview preparation, mock interviews & feedback
  • Career and industry insight in the NGO field and UK Civil Service
  • Job search strategy & career plan strategy
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Ruba Noorali

Relevant Industries

Legal, Regulatory, UK Government, Private Practice, Public Sector 

Professional Background

  • Qualified solicitor practising in the public sector, within the legal department of a government regulator.
  • Previously worked for 8 years as an Associate in the London and Brussels offices of a leading US Law Firm specialising in competition law.
  • Led teams of up to 10 trainees and junior associates providing legal advice on corporate transactions and competition law investigations in the EU, UK, Middle East and Asia.
  • Interviewed and selected law students to represent King’s College London at the world’s largest international law moot court competition, and mentored and coached selected students.
  • LLM specialising in competition, innovation and trade law from The London School of Economics and a First Class Honours Law LLB from King’s College London (completed an additional postgraduate diploma in EU competition law).
  • Fluent in Arabic

Professional Advisory Services

  • CV writing, job application & cover letter support
  • LinkedIn profile writing
  • Legal training contract and vacation scheme application support
  • Tailored interview preparation, mock interviews & feedback (including STAR approach)
  • Internships & work experience application guidance
  • Industry & professional career insight
  • Job search & career plan strategy
  • Job contract & salary negotiation
  • Networking opportunities
  • Networking skills, presentation skills, communication skills & negotiation skills coaching
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Khan Kassam

Relevant Industries

Legal, Construction, Engineering, Real Estate, Private Practice

Professional Background

  • Qualified solicitor in England & Wales with 7 years post-qualification experience at a large UK Law Firm, advising national and international clients including banks, funds and developers.
  • Worked within a team of real estate and construction lawyers across a network of 14 offices in the UK, drafting and negotiating construction, real estate, finance and security documents.
  • Supervised paralegals, trainees and solicitors at large national and international law firms.
  • Mentored aspiring law students, providing constructive feedback for professional development.
  • LLB in Law and European Legal Studies from King's College London.
  • Intermediate in French and basic Swahili.

Professional Advisory Services

  • CV writing, job application & cover letter support
  • LinkedIn profile writing
  • Legal training contract & vacation scheme application support
  • Internships & work experience application guidance
  • Job contract & salary negotiations
  • Networking skills coaching
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Samuel Dustow

Relevant Industries

Finance, Private Wealth, Fiduciary Services, Offshore

Professional Background

  • Associate Director at an international trust and corporate service provider, with over 10 years’ experience in the offshore fiduciary services industry establishing, managing and administering various structures for ultra-high net worth clients.
  • Previously worked as a senior manager, supervising teams of junior colleagues and supporting their professional development.
  • Prepared and delivered training sessions on private equity assets, private wealth structuring and identified cross-selling opportunities to internal staff.
  • Interviewed candidates and onboarded new members of the private wealth team.
  • Named as one of ePrivateClients’ top 35 under 35 for the Channel Islands in 2020 and 2019.

Professional Advisory Services

  • CV writing, job application & cover letter support
  • LinkedIn profile writing
  • Tailored interview preparation, mock interviews & feedback (including STAR approach)
  • Internships & work experience application guidance
  • Industry & professional career insight
  • Job search & career plan strategy
  • Job contract & salary negotiation
  • Networking opportunities
  • Networking skills, presentation skills, communication skills, negotiation skills & confidence coaching
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Jennifer Jewitt

Relevant Industries

Technology, IT, Business, Consultancy 

Professional Background

  • A trained consultant at a large, UK multinational IT firm, with experience leading a technical team of over 50 software engineers, developers and testers, on-shore and off-shore for 18 months for a multimillion-dollar project.
  • Previously the Head of People & Operations at a successful analytics consulting start-up, independently sourced, hired and trained the whole company, and grew the team from 3 to 30 people in one year.
  • Independently managed 35 individuals, providing career advice and guidance for professional development.
  • Conducted hundreds of interviews for technical and non-technical positions, from junior to executive level.
  • Graduated from IBM Sales School with a Distinction - 6 months of in-person and virtual training.
  • First Class Honours BSc in International Business from Loughborough University.

Professional Advisory Services

  • CV writing, job application & cover letter support
  • LinkedIn Profile writing
  • Tailored interview preparation, mock interviews & feedback (including STAR approach)
  • Internships & work experience application guidance
  • Industry & professional career insight
  • Job search & career plan strategy
  • Job contract & salary negotiation
  • Networking opportunities
  • Networking skills, presentation skills, communication skills, negotiation skills & confidence coaching
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Rafael Koukkoullis

Relevant Industries

Technology, Customer Success, Consultancy

Professional Background

  • Manager of the Customer Success department at a fast-growing international scale-up tech company with specialism in travel and legal tech.
  • Managed large scale international accounts, focusing on onboarding, expansion, customer retention and advocacy.
  • Independently built and led a team of customer success professionals across multiple jurisdictions, providing career advice and guidance.
  • Conducted numerous interviews for onboarding customer success managers, from junior to enterprise level.
  • MA in History and MSc in International Relations from Edinburgh University. Fluent in Greek and intermediate in Spanish.

Professional Advisory Services

  • CV writing, job application & cover letter support
  • Tailored interview preparation, mock interviews & feedback (including STAR approach)
  • Internships & work experience application guidance
  • Industry & professional career insight
  • Job search & career plan strategy
  • Job contract & salary negotiation
  • Networking opportunities
  • Networking skills, presentation skills, communication skills, negotiation skills & confidence coaching
  • CRM coaching
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Dafne Morroni

Relevant Industries

Healthcare, National Health Service, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Academia, Research  

Professional Background

  • Head of Family Therapy Department at a Drug Rehabilitation NGO offering individual, couples and group counselling and supervising psychology students.
  • Lecturer of Counselling Psychology at the University of Cyprus and research assistant volunteer at the Anna Freud Centre, teaching and supervising psychology students.
  • Previously worked at the NHS, providing a specialist service for Bipolar Disorder (MSc placement/Honorary Assistant Psychologist), delivered acute psychiatric inpatient ward clinical support work and worked for two years as a Low-Intensity CBT Therapist.
  • Clinical Psychology PhD Trainee with extensive research experience and 1500 hours of clinical experience through clinical placements at a university counselling centre and with children and adolescents with substance abuse issues.
  • Fluent in Italian, Greek and intermediate in French.

Professional Advisory Services

  • PhD application support
  • CV writing, job application & cover letter support
  • Tailored interview preparation, mock interviews & feedback (including STAR approach)
  • Internships & work experience application guidance
  • Industry & professional career insight
  • Job search & career plan strategy
  • Presentation skills, communication skills & confidence coaching
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Luis Jimenez

Relevant Industries

Biological Research, Science and Academia

Professional Background

  • Published research microbiologist and geneticist with 7 years experience working in a range of active research laboratories spanning evolutionary ecology, environmental microbiology, structural protein biochemistry, and host-pathogen interactions.
  • Worked as a Laboratory Manager and helped set up all protocols and day-to-day systems for a newly established protein biochemistry laboratory.
  • Guided and taught hundreds of students over a decade of individual and group-based tutoring of tertiary level biology and genetics, focussing on content acquisition, experimental write-up, exam preparation, and scientific poster preparation.
  • Well-versed in the effective planning and implementation of large-scale experimental design with specialty in a huge number of lab-based techniques from bacterial culture to genetic manipulation, protein purification to qPCR, and biochemical and biophysical assays.
  • Graduated with First Class Honours at the top of my cohort and ranked within the top 20 student across the Faculty of Science at Monash University (Australia).
  • Fluent in Spanish.

Professional Advisory Services

  • Scientific writing assistance, including undergraduate reports and theses
  • Scientific poster guidance
  • Scientific presentation skills coaching
  • CV writing, job application & cover letter support
  • Application and cover letter writing assistance
  • Career and industry insight
  • Communication skills coaching
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Dr. Maria Stavrou

Relevant Industries

Healthcare, Science, Research, Psychology, Consultancy 

Professional Background

  • Trained consultant with experience at a large, multinational firm, part of big four. Member of the advisory team, specialising in behavioural science and organisational psychology for a range of projects, both private and governmental.
  • Lectured BSc and MSc Psychology courses, designed assessments and provided assessment feedback.
  • Mentored and trained six postgraduate students to obtain high accuracy and quality neural measurements and co-supervised an MSc Clinical Neuroscience project.
  • Published five peer-reviewed research papers in international journals.
  • Completed a fully funded PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience at Goldsmiths University of London, using psychometric, behavioural, neuroimaging and computational methods.
  • Fluent in Greek.

Professional Advisory Services

  • CV writing, job application & cover letter support
  • LinkedIn Profile writing
  • Tailored interview preparation, mock interviews & feedback (including STAR approach)
  • Internships and work experience application guidance
  • Industry and professional career insight
  • Job search & career plan strategy
  • Career and industry insight
  • Networking skills, presentation skills, communication skills & confidence coaching
  • Networking opportunities
  • Career discovery & planning
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Lorenzo Daniele

Relevant Industries

United Nations International Agencies, European Union Bodies, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), International Cooperation, Asylum, Migrants

Professional Background

  • Senior Protection Associate for UNHCR in Melilla (Spain), supervising members of UNHCR’s Field Unit in Melilla, liaising with international organisations and representing the UNHCR in meetings.
  • Previously a Team Coordinator for the European Union Agency for Asylum leading a multifunctional team of 20 people including social workers, reception officers, registration officers, legal advisors and interpreters.
  • Worked at various UN Agencies including IFAD, World Food Programme, FAO as trainee for the UN Costa Rica Delegation and UNCHR Ecuador as Protection Officer.
  • Conducted interviews for technical and non-technical positions, from junior to intermediate level.
  • Law degree from Sapienza Universita di Roma, Masters in International Relations and International Protection of Human Rights from SIOI and Masters in International Cooperation from ISPI.
  • Fluent in Italian, Spanish and conversational in Greek

Professional Advisory Services

  • CV writing, job application & cover letter support
  • LinkedIn profile writing
  • Tailored interview preparation, mock interviews & feedback (including STAR approach)
  • Internships & work experience application guidance
  • Industry & professional career insight
  • Job search & career plan strategy
  • Networking opportunities
  • Presentation skills, communication skills, negotiation skills & confidence coaching
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Joanna Choblet

Relevant Industries

International Law, Animal Law, Comparative Law, Criminology, Criminal Justice, Counter Terrorism, Wildlife Crime, Academia, Research, Fundraising

Professional Background

  • A Development and Communications Officer at a leading wildlife NGO in The Netherlands, organising events for donors and partners, developing the communications and fundraising strategy, drafting project proposals, public reports and news articles.
  • Previously worked as a Legal Officer at the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
  • Developed an online training platform and hosted training workshops globally for judges, prosecutors, law enforcement and government officials on accountability for international crimes and effective counter-terrorism policies.
  • Reviewed job applications and conducted interviews of candidates for various researcher positions.
  • Published an article in the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism journal and assisted with drafting the NATO Guidebook on Inter-Agency and International Cooperation in Counter-Terrorism for the ICCT.
  • MSc in Comparative Criminal Justice and LLM in Public International Law from Leiden University and Bachelor’s degree in Law from Université de Perpignan Via Domitia.
  • Fluent in French and Intermediate in German and Spanish.

Professional Advisory Services

  • CV writing , job application & cover letter support for international organisations, NGOs & Think Tanks
  • LinkedIn profile writing
  • Tailored interview preparation, mock interviews & feedback (including STAR approach)
  • Internships & work experience application guidance
  • Industry & professional career insight
  • Job search & career plan strategy
  • Academic coaching and tutoring
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Jack Friberg

Relevant Industries

International Law, Criminology, Criminal Justice, Academia 

Professional Background

  • Legal advisor to expat clients, providing legal representation in property-related issues specific to the Netherlands.
  • Previously a University Lecturer in the Netherlands, teaching law courses, soft skill development courses and mentoring students on career growth.
  • Private tutor providing personalised interview coaching for academic positions at leading universities, coaching presentation and communication skills and providing confidence training to over 200 students.
  • Supported students through the process of securing positions on competitive PhD and Master programs across the globe.
  • MSc in Comparative Criminal Justice from Leiden University and a Bachelor’s in International Law from Örebro University.
  • Fluent in Swedish and conversational in Danish and Norwegian.

Professional Advisory Services

  • CV writing, job application & cover letter support
  • Internships & work experience application guidance
  • Tailored interview preparation, mock interviews & feedback (including STAR approach)
  • Job search & career plan strategy
  • Presentation skills, communication skills, negotiation skills & confidence coaching
  • Academic coaching and tutoring
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