Her work examines how information flows, market structures, and institutional incentives shape how commodities are traded and governed, and how these systems can be redesigned to improve coordination, transparency, and long-term economic outcomes.
Over the past decade, Brianna has worked with governments, development institutions, and private sector actors on supply chain digitization, resource governance, and market development.
Brianna is the founder of the Stratum Institute for Global Action, a research and advisory group focused on strengthening commodity systems through data infrastructure, policy design, and market development strategies. Through this work, she has supported large-scale initiatives aimed at improving traceability, formalizing trade, and expanding market access in frontier markets.
She also founded CropConex, a venture-backed technology company designed to improve coordination across commodity markets by integrating traceability, contracting, logistics, and financial workflows into a unified system. The company was part of the Techstars accelerator and became the first licensed e-commerce platform for commodity trade in Ethiopia, supporting the digitization of agricultural markets and facilitating new trade relationships.
Brianna studied international development at Harvard University and the London School of Economics, specializing in environmental policy. Her research focuses on how risks, value, and power are distributed across commodity systems, with particular attention to how information asymmetries shape market behavior and institutional effectiveness. She contributes to working groups and policy discussions on supply chain transparency, technology interoperability, anti-corruption, and development finance.