Team
Joan M. Larrea
Chief Executive Officer
Aakif Merchant
Director, Engagement & Capacity Building
Christopher Clubb
Managing Director
David Schwartz
Senior Advisor to the CEO, Strategic Partnerships
Heiner W. Skaliks
Senior Advisor, Latin America and Caribbean
Jon Patell
Director, Engineering
Leah Pedersen
Senior Director, Market Acceleration and Design Innovation
Manissa Patel
Chief Financial Officer
Nnamdi Igbokwe, Ph.D.
Director, Knowledge and Thought Leadership
Ritesh Thakkar
Senior Advisor, Asia Pacific
Safia Gulamani
Chief Operating Officer
Karolyn Xie
Head of Communications (Interim)
Trang Vandelis
Associate Director, Design Funding & Market Acceleration
Alicia Maitland
Manager, Training and Engagement
Andrew Apampa, CFA
Manager, Content
Ayesha Bery
Manager, Content
Krishna Malhotra
Manager, Market Acceleration and Design Funding
Nicholas Zelenczuk
Manager, Content
Olive Munene
Manager, Member Engagement
Basil Kandaya
Senior Associate, Africa
Kanwal Rathi, CFA
Senior Associate, Design Funding & Market Acceleration
Kerala Woods
Senior Associate, Communications
Robin Ivory
Senior Associate, Content
Sneha Thayil
Senior Associate, Training and Engagement
Stephanie Singh
Senior Associate, Finance and Operations
Arusha Latif, CFA
Associate, Market Acceleration and Design Funding
Egwin Fan
Associate, Asia Pacific
Garima Chaulagain
Associate, Communications
Ilsa Weinstein-Wright
Associate, Development Finance Research
Ishwari Sawant
Associate, Content
Kayden Danh
Associate, Admin and Operations
Mira Minkara
Associate, Training and Engagement
Shriju Dhakal
Associate, Market Acceleration and Design Funding
Thomas An
Associate, Market Acceleration and Design Funding
Sijia Yi
Head of Communications (on leave)
Catherine You
Manager, Market Acceleration and Design Funding (on leave)
Regina Rossmann
Manager, Training and Engagement (on leave)
Shailie Rimal
Senior Associate, Market Acceleration and Design Funding (on leave)
Governance
Board of Directors
David Creighton
Senior Advisor, BT Global (Chair)
Phil Bennett
Senior Advisor, Endeavor
Rachna Saxena
Partner, Dalberg Advisors
Victoria Sabula
CEO, Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF)
Will Poole
Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Capria
Funding Committee
Bart Van Eyk
Managing Director, VP Capital
Flora Ji
Global Vice President, Nature Based Solutions, Shell
Geoffrey Seeto
Head of Emerging Markets, New Forests Asia (Singapore) PTE LTD.
Jennifer Buckley
Founder and Managing Director, Sweef Capital
Jesse Ang
Independent Director, BPI/ACEN
Kaylene Alvarez
Co-founder, BIDUK Indonesia; Founder & CEO, Athena Global Alliance
Lily Han, CFA
Director, Innovative Finance, Rockefeller Foundation
Paul Currie
Advisor, Office of the CEO, Development Bank of Southern Africa
Ricardo Nogueira
Member, Green Climate Fund's independent Technical Advisory Panel
Sébastien Boyé
Co-CEO, Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P)
Sergio Gusmão Suchodolski
Executive Vice President VR Investments
Thelma Ekiyor
Managing Partner, SME.NG
Vipul Bhagat
Senior Advisor, Castalia
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