Sophie is a communications professional with expertise in public affairs, media relations and event management.
Over the past ten years her experience has spanned the private and not-for-profit sectors, including working on major public facing campaigns at the housing charity Shelter and the Big Lottery Fund.
At IDS, her role has a particular focus on external events and policy engagement.
IDS Modern Slavery Briefing;
International enterprises, sex work, organised crime groups, and exploitative recruitment agencies have dominated the discussion on modern slavery in recent years. However, while this work is important, it is just the tip of the iceberg.
15 May 2018
Vice President of the Gambia, Isatou Touray has spoken of the critical role that women, young people and social movements played in achieving the country’s non-violent transition from dictator to democracy, as she delivered the Institute of Development Studies Annual Lecture. The lecture...
6 December 2019
The Gambia, once viewed as an improbable nation, suffering the fate of many other African countries bedevilled with coups and dictatorial regimes, has gone on to prove itself not only as a viable state, but also as a beacon of democracy in...
Vice President of The Gambia, Isatou Touray, will visit Brighton this week to deliver the Institute of Development Studies Annual Lecture on Thursday 5 December. The lecture will discuss the role that women and young people played in The Gambia’s recent transformation from dictatorship to...
2 December 2019
Women’s rights activist, IDS alum and now Vice President of The Gambia, Isatou Touray, will deliver the 2019 IDS Annual Lecture on Thursday 5 December. Entitled ‘From dictatorship to democracy: the role of women in politics in The Gambia’ Vice President Touray will explore how The Gambia...
21 November 2019