Team

Our team combines expertise in management, technology, finance, and development logistics.

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Team members join us at every stage in their career, from a wide variety of sectors. We hope you’ll join us.

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Meet the team

Leadership

Nick Allardice

President and CEO

Jamila Abass

Country Director, Morocco

Ruchi Agarwal

Director, Global Treasury

Julius Anyega

Controller

Kimberly Belk

Director of Compliance and Grants Management

Will Bishop

Country Director, Mozambique

Ellen Fitton

Director, Internal Audit

Becca Frank

Vice President, Technology

Tyler Hall

Senior Director, Communications

Stephanie Hill

Vice President, People

Heidi Hirvonen

Director, People

Grace Jackson

Country Director, Malawi

Stephen Kalungu

Programs Director, Kenya

Laura Keen

Programs Director, US

Ariana Keyman

Director, Partnerships

Sam Kreter

Director, Program Technology

Miriam Laker

Director, Research

Stella Luk

Regional Director

John Paul Makoni

Country Director, Kenya

Sarah Moran

Vice President, Development

Yvonne Namala-Murindiwa

Programs Director, Malawi

Gloria Ngabire

Country Director, Rwanda

Ivan Ntwali

Country Director, Uganda

Dan Obus

Chief Financial Officer

Dustin Palmer

Country Director, US

Isabelle Pelly

Director, Partnerships

Daniel Quinn

Director, Humanitarian

Lamia Rashid

Regional Director

Harris Roberts

VP, Growth, Product, Comms & Marketing

Caroline Teti

VP, Safeguarding, Risk, Compliance

Carolina Toth

Senior Chief of Staff

Maureen Trantham

Chief Operating Officer

Eelco Vugs

Director, Safeguarding

Rachel Waddell

Director, Partnerships

Lydiah Wangechi

Regional Director

Yolande Wright

Vice President, Partnerships

Joseph Yarsiah

Country Director, Liberia

Board of directors

Aly Jeddy

Chairman (US)

Aly Sheezar Jeddy is a Director at McKinsey & Company. He has led the Firm's Private Equity & Principal Investing Practice for the Americas as well as the Strategy Practice on the U.S. East Coast. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Dalton School, the Board of Overseers of the International Rescue Committee, the board of the Aziz Jehan Begum Trust for the Blind, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Jeddy's experience includes work at the War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Office of the Prosecutor, at the World Bank, and with the leading human rights lawyer in Pakistan, advising the Prime Minister on advancing gender equality.

Michael Faye

Executive Chair, Co-founder

Rohit Wanchoo

Director
Secretary
Treasurer (US)

Rohit is a Principal at a private equity firm in New York. He previously worked as a Research Analyst for the United Nations Millennium Project (UNMP), a group headed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, tasked with preparing a plan for low-income countries to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Prior to his work at the UN, Rohit worked in finance as an investment banker for Lehman Brothers in New York. Rohit holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and an MPA in International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Paul Niehaus

Director (US)

Paul Niehaus is co-founder and chairman of GiveDirectly, currently the top-rated nonprofit by GiveWell and ranked among the 25 most audacious companies (Inc) and 10 most innovative companies in finance (Fast Company). GiveDirectly is a recognized leader in the use of modern technology to transfer funds directly to the extreme poor, and in the use of rigorous scientific methods to document its impact. Paul is also a co-founder of Segovia, which builds enterprise technology for the management of social programming in the emerging markets. He holds an academic appointment in the Department of Economics at UC San Diego, where he works with governments in India to improve the implementation of social programming. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Junior Affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), an Affiliate of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and an Affiliate at the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA). He holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University and is a National Science Foundation Fellow and a Sloan Fellow. In 2013 Foreign Policy named him one of its 100 leading "Global Thinkers."

Country office boards

Samuel Mwamburi Mwale

Board Member (Kenya)

Samuel founded Farasi Strategy Advisors Ltd, a firm that provides investment and strategy advice to public and private sector clients. He has served in senior positions in the Government of Kenya in the last 10+ years, having served for five as Principal Administrative Secretary and assistant Secretary to the Cabinet, in the Cabinet Office, Office of the President. Previously, he served as Economic Secretary to the Presidency at State House and as Economic Advisor to the Ministry of Planning & National Development and the National Economic & Social Council. Mr. Mwale holds a Master's degree in agricultural economics from the University of Oxford, a Postgraduate Diploma in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia, a Bachelor of Science in Range Management from the University of Nairobi, and has attended executive training on policy analysis at Stanford University and leadership at Harvard University.

Rachel Sibande

Board Member (Malawi)

Rachel Sibande is a Digital Development Specialist. Ms. Sibande established Malawi's first technology and innovation hub; mHub. The hub provides digital skills training, financing and investment readiness support for emerging innovative entrepreneurs. Rachel currently serves as Senior Director at the United Nations Foundation. She leads Big Data for development and Digital Transformation work in Africa. Rachel has over a decade of extensive experience managing development projects in more than 16 countries cutting across digital financial services, public health, agriculture, disaster management and elections monitoring. She became a Google Scholar in 2015, being a recipient of Google's Anita Borg Award for outstanding computer science students from around the world. Rachel has been listed twice by Forbes as one of Africa's 30 under 30 entrepreneurs in 2016 and as a new wealth creator in 2019. In 2018, Ms. Sibande won the Climate Smart Innovation pan African competition of the Next Einstein Forum after inventing a thermal chemical plant that produces light and gas from maize cobs for mini grids to power rural households in Malawi. Rachel completed a PhD in computer Science at Rhodes University in South Africa. She read Cyrptography and Coding Theory for her Masters degree from the Mzuzu University and holds a Bachelors of Science degree from the University of Malawi.

Advisors

Rory Stewart

Rory is an advisor at GiveDirectly. Previously, he was the UK Secretary of State for International Development, Minister of State for Justice, Minister of State in Foreign Office and DFID (covering Africa, Middle East, and Asia), Minister for the Environment and Chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee. After a brief period as an infantry officer he joined the UK Diplomatic Service, serving overseas in Jakarta, as British representative to Montenegro in the wake of the Kosovo crisis, and as the coalition Deputy-Governor of two provinces of Southern Iraq following the intervention of 2003. He left the diplomatic service to undertake a two-year walk across Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, India and Nepal. In 2005, he established the Turquoise Mountain Foundation in Kabul, working to restore a section of the old city, establish a clinic, primary school, and Arts Institute, and bring Afghan crafts to international markets. In 2008, he became the Ryan Professor of Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School and Director for the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy. He is a Visiting Fellow at The Jackson Institute at Yale University. Speaking & Press Requests: If you are interested in Rory speaking at an event or making a press appearance please email press@givedirectly.org. He’s on Twitter at @RoryStewartUK.

Paul Brest

Paul Brest is Professor Emeritus (active) at Stanford Law School, where he joined the faculty in 1969 and served as Dean from 1987 to 1999. He is also a lecturer at the Graduate School of Business and a faculty co-director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. He served as president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation from 2000 to 2012. A leading scholar and teacher of constitutional law, Paul now focuses his teaching and writing on public policy, judgment and decision making, and philanthropy. He is co-author of Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment (2010) and Money Well Spent: A Strategic Guide to Smart Philanthropy (2008).

Joshua Rugema

Joshua is currently the managing director at H2O Venture Partners, providing leadership for the firm's Africa operations. H2O Venture Partners is an investment firm that is building and investing in profitable, high-growth, high-impact, agricultural ventures in East Africa. Joshua has spent the last decade in private equity and investment management in the US.

Hemant Taneja

Hemant is a managing director at General Catalyst, where he invests in early stage technology companies. Hemant has spent the last decade partnering with great entrepreneurs to build technology companies that can transform industries. Before joining General Catalyst in 2002, he was the founder and CEO of Isovia. Hemant is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning an M.S. in operations research, an M.Eng. in electrical engineering & computer science, a B.S. in mathematics, a B.S. in electrical engineering & computer science, and a B.S. in biology & biomedical engineering.

William Meehan (In Memoriam)

Director Emeritus

William F. Meehan III was the Lafayette Partners Lecturer in Strategic Management at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company. Mr. Meehan was a regular writer, speaker, and advisor on nonprofit strategy, governance, performance measurement, and philanthropy. At Stanford, he was a founding member of the Advisory Council of the Center for Philanthropy and the Civil Society, a faculty member of the Public Management Program and the Center for Social Innovation, and a member of the Arts Initiative Council. During his 30-plus-year tenure at McKinsey & Company, Mr. Meehan worked with chief executives in technology, private equity, retail, financial services, and media on topics of top management strategy, organization, and leadership.

Staff

Kamal Abdi-Rashid

Creative Content Manager

Lucy Abulo

Senior Manager, Talent & External Relations

Gloria Adeoye

Grants Compliance Manager

Tosin Adeyini

Office and Procurement Manager

Ayushi Srivastava

Research Manager

Gabrielle Alicino

Senior Philanthropy Officer

David Alzate

Senior Manager, Partnerships

Concy Ayet

Procurement Manager, Uganda

Jamie Backhaus

Senior Manager, Partnerships

Chisomo Banda

Associate Field Manager

Yazmin Baptiste

Data Associate

Federico Barreras

Humanitarian Manager

Pearl Bitanhirwe

Human Resources Manager, Uganda

Mary Blair

Philanthropy Officer

Diana Bosibori

People Engagement Associate

Marie Cadelina

Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition

Jacob Carmichael

Manager, Growth

Driss Chaouki

Associate Field Manager, Morocco

Sara Chedad

Office and Procurement Manager, Morocco

Anthony Chege

Grants Compliance Manager

Olivia Chen

Senior Manager, Growth and Product

Daniel Chenoweth

Senior Engineer

Alex Cohen

Partnerships Manager

Trevor Connolly Carbo

Senior Technical Program Manager

Thomas Counsell

Senior Engineer

Nirali Desai

Innovation Manager

Roshni Desai

Technical Program Manager

Julien Devos

Senior Manager, Safety and Security

Hamza Ezzaim

Associate Field Manager, Morocco

Kayla Fishman

Senior Manager, Growth

Tom Fitzpatrick

Partnerships Manager

Elisa Gabellieri

Humanitarian Senior Manager

Mohammed Ghazi

Program Manager

Jaela Gentry

Program Manager

Isaac Gikandu

Finance Associate

Nicholas Githinji

Finance Manager

Esnatt Gondwe-Matekesa

Senior Manager, Programs

Jacqueline C. Greene

Associate Field Manager, Safeguarding

Julie Gu

Growth Associate

Julia Guerra

Donor Experience Manager

Feri Gwata

Partnerships Manager

Jon Hall

Engineer

Melissa Harpool

Outreach Coordinator

George Hokkanen

Senior Engineer

Angus Hopes

Research Associate

Robert Huang

Senior Engineer

Salome Hussein

Program Manager, Kenya

Sarina Jain

Manager, US Programs

Miguel Jambo

Program Manager, Mozambique

Jendayi Jones

Partnerships Associate

Patricia Jose

Finance Associate

Saidi Juma

People Operations Manager

Faustah Kago

Office and Procurement Manager, Kenya

Raissa Kalinganire

Human Resources Manager, Rwanda

Edwin Kamara

Program Manager, Internal Audit

Swaliho F. Kamara

Senior Manager, Liberia

Joseph Kandau

Finance Manager

Omalha Kanjo

Senior Manager, Flex International

Kamesha Kasolo

Program Manager, Safeguarding

Patrick Kathambana

Creative Content Manager

Yusuf Katushabe

Senior Manager, IT and Information Security

Emma Kelsey

Senior Manager, US

Sarah Kenkuyu

Program Manager, Rwanda

Peter Kibet

Data Coordinator

Lilian Kimuya

Senior Manager, Finance

Teddy Kinyoro

Senior Manager, Flex International

Pamela Kirabo

Metrics and Quality Associate Field Manager, Rwanda

Leila Lahlou

Associate Field Manager, Morocco

Linda Lamya

Field Manager, Malawi

Korey Leday

Program Manager, U.S

Kristen Lee

Sr. Manager, Data/Tech

Yonah Lieberman

Senior Manager, Press and Communications

Michael Lillis

Humanitarian Manager

Gloria Lourenco

Finance Officer

Caroline Luka

Grants Compliance Associate

Bennis Dahn Madave

Field Manager, Liberia

Violet Magoba

Government Relations Manager

Tallulah Manalo- Lamanna

Growth Associate

Tanvir Mangat

Data Associate

Nicke Mario

Field Manager, Mozambique

Diego Martin

Research Manager

Lalena Meyerson

Senior Manager, Compliance & Grants

Jasmine Miller

Research Manager

Chris Mjima

Program Manager, Malawi

Jeff Mohan

Senior Engineer

Gianmarco Morassutti Vitale

Humanitarian Manager

Chikondi Mphonde

Human Resources Manager

Rudy Mudakikwa

Senior Manager, Finance

Comfort Mugambi

Associate Legal Counsel

Percis Mukyala

Accounting Officer

Sharon Munyazikwiye

Field Manager, Rwanda

Cecilia Mvula

Associate Field Manager, Safeguarding

Clifford Mwale

Technical Program Manager

Mary Nakibirango

Field Manager, Uganda

Vincent Ndegwa

Data Associate

Jerome Ngoga

Data Coordinator

Kelsey Niehaus

UX/UI Design Lead

Liana Nierenberg

Legal Operations Associate

Moise Niyitegeka

Tech Associate Field Manager, Rwanda

Cedric Ntwali

Field Manager, Rwanda

Patience Nuwagira

Office and Procurement Manager, Rwanda

Zondwayo Nyirenda

Associate Field Manager, Malawi

Ronny Obunga

Finance Associate

Derrick Okoth

Recruitment Associate

Nancy Oluoch

Senior Finance Manager

Gregg Omondi

Research Associate

David Onyango

Program Manager, Internal Audit

Calvin Opiyo

IT Manager

Francis Opol

Program Manager, Safeguarding

Camille Parker

Research Manager

Roger Pharr

Senior Technical Program Manager

Marie Sophie Pocha

Senior Manager, North and West Africa

Kazmyn Ramos

Program Manager, US

Paula Romero

Technical Program Manager

Noah Selman

Data Engineer

Anna Schuck

Senior Manager, Safeguarding

Cristina Sharpe

Recruitment Associate

Maggie Shun

Senior Manager, US Programs

Gilda Simbine

Finance Manager

Winnie Situma

Recruitment Associate

Ruth Sterk

Senior Finance Manager

Nikhil Swaminathan

Technical Program Manager

Zack Tarhouni

Data Coordinator

Ash Taylor-Beierl

Program Manager, Safeguarding

Samantha Tinkamanyire

Senior Manager, Field Operations

Graham Tyler

Sr. Manager, Data/Tech

Ariane Umurungi

Finance Manager

Gabriel Varela

Data Associate

Winnie Vivian

Field Manager, Kenya

Jean Wafula

Safeguarding Associate

Ilan Wallentin

Manager, Growth