Profile

An independent consultant with over fifteen years' international experience working on the sustainable and best practice approaches to managing social and human rights impacts and risks surrounding private sector projects, with a particular focus on the extractive sector.

Trained as a social anthropologist, Dr Tomlinson completed between 2001 and 2005 an ESRC funded PhD, which explored indigenous peoples' land rights in Venezuela during the development and aftermath of a conflict over the building of an electricity power line through indigenous territories.

Since then, she has worked as a consultant on numerous private sector energy and infrastructure projects in Latin America, Africa, North America, Eastern Europe and Australia, helping companies apply sustainable and best practice approaches to managing social and human rights impacts and risks. Dr Tomlinson also has a particular expertise in projects dealing with the intersection between indigenous and customary land rights and private sector development.