Senior on the file. Always.

At the Global Fund Office of the Inspector General, Ajay led the landmark DRC mass bed-net investigation that identified losses exceeding USD 7 million and negotiated the remediation programme that triggered a complete revamp of the Global Fund's iNGO assurance framework. He also designed and finalised the institution's Proactive Investigations strategy and standard operating procedure — a hypothesis-driven, intelligence-and-data-analytics methodology now embedded in OIG practice — and advised on the systemic framework for the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (PSEAH).

Outside the donor-funded sphere, Ajay exposed a multi-million-dollar counterfeit mosquito-net supply chain running from China into West Africa through a market-intelligence project; led a 20-person forensic accounting team investigating a US-listed Indian IT company following an SEC order, identifying material misrepresentation of the financial statements; and supervised Asian Development Bank procurement-risk reviews in India, Nepal and Kazakhstan for multi-million-dollar road and bridge restoration projects.

More recently, Ajay has focused on applying agentic AI to integrity work. He designed an AI-augmented due-diligence workflow for a Middle-East industrial engineering and trading client that materially improved partner screening and intake efficiency, and managed development of an AI-enabled risk-analytics dashboard for a South-East Asian energy producer. Throughout his career at international firms and donor institutions, his investigations work has been consistently top-rated in quality reviews.

As a Civil Affairs Officer with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), Valérie served two years on the protection-of-civilians mandate in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, working in daily collaboration with UNMISS military components and national security actors on conflict prevention. She designed and implemented community dialogues, mediation processes and sustainable conflict-mitigation projects to address inter-communal tensions; produced early-warning and risk analyses with actionable recommendations for senior leadership; ran participatory needs assessments across local communities; and oversaw a USD 70k team budget under the UN results-based budgeting framework.

At Interpeace, Valérie was the substantive and administrative backbone of a 3-year, USD 4.5 million Peace Responsiveness programme — co-facilitating cross-organisational peer learning across seven UN agencies and coordinating donor reporting for the full portfolio. At the Principles for Peace Foundation she advised across a USD 4 million donor portfolio spanning government and private funders (including the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation and the Robert Bosch Stiftung), led production of the institutional annual reports, and reviewed a 16-grant sub-grant mechanism. As Project Manager at Finance for Peace she delivered, over a ten-month build with a five-person team, the minimum viable product of an online tool preparing stakeholders for peace-positive financial-instrument certification, and co-designed its four-module foundational course.

Valérie is Tier 1 & 2 qualified as a Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH) investigator (CHS Alliance, 2024) and Safeguarding Officer in Sport (International Olympic Committee, 2025), with field-tested grounding in survivor-centred, trauma-informed practice. She has advised the African Development Bank on peace-positive private-sector investment, designed and co-facilitated learning programmes for humanitarian and development professionals in conflict-affected contexts (200 participants per cohort), and contributed research inputs to FAO’s Operationalising Pathways to Sustaining Peace. Her in-country experience spans South Sudan, Mexico, Paraguay and Colombia.