Ruth is an economic policy adviser working on the GROW campaign with a focus on policy recommendations to help ensure that everybody in the world has enough to eat. She works on policy responses to the causes and consequences of high and volatile food prices, specifically challenging biofuels policies and working to prevent land grabs.

Prior to joining Oxfam, Ruth worked on UN system reform with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Albania, and on trade and development at the European Commission and at Yale. She holds an LL.M in Public International Law from the University of Cambridge and an LL.B in Law and French Law from Trinity College, Dublin and Institut des Etudes Politiques (Sciences-Po), Paris.