Team

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

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.

Jacquelline Fuller

Director (US)

Jacquelline Fuller leads Google.org, which brings together funding, innovation, and technical expertise from Googlers to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone. Jacquelline joined Google in 2007 and manages a global team overseeing Google’s philanthropic work, product donations and employee giving and volunteering. Under her leadership, Google.org has donated more than $1 billion to innovative nonprofits using technology to tackle complex global challenges. Prior to Google, Jacquelline served as Deputy Director of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. While at the Gates Foundation, Jacquelline and her family moved to Delhi, India where she helped launch a major public health initiative. Jacquelline also served as a speechwriter to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Louis Sullivan. She received her BA in political science from UCLA and a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School at Harvard. She serves on the board of GiveDirectly.

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."

Leadership

Samuel Mwamburi Mwale

Interim President

Samuel is the interim President and CEO of GiveDirectly. He 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 9 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.

Joe Huston

Managing Director

Jamila Abass

Country Director, Morocco

Endegena Ashenafi

Country Director, Ethiopia

Mouna Boujmal

Chief of Staff

Will Bishop

Country Director, Mozambique

Namita Desai

Director, Partnerships

Becca Frank

Vice President, Technology

Shaunak Ganguly

Country Director, Malawi

Simon Grinsted

Director, Growth

Tyler Hall

Director, Communications

Tyler Hatch

Director, Development

Stephanie Hill

Vice President, People

Stephen Kalungu

Country Director, Kenya

Ammar Karimjee

Director, Internal Audit

Ariana Keyman

Director, Partnerships

Doug Kirke-Smith

Vice President, Programs

Sam Kreter

Director, Program Technology

Miriam Laker

Director, Research

Stella Luk

Regional Director, North and West Africa

Sarah Moran

Vice President, Development

Grace Mwihia

Accounting Director, Finance

Yvonne Namala-Murindiwa

Programs Director, Malawi

Alex Nawar

Regional Director, International

Gloria Ngabire

Country Director, Rwanda

Ivan Ntwali

Country Director, Uganda

Daniel Quinn

Director, Humanitarian

Lamia Rashid

Regional Director

Harris Roberts

Director, Growth

Caroline Teti

Director, Recipient Safeguarding and Advocacy

Rachel Waddell

Director, Partnerships

Ilan Wallentin

Chief of Staff

Lydiah Wangechi

Regional Director, East Africa

Jason Watters

Chief Financial Officer

Yolande Wright

Vice President, Partnerships

Joseph Yarsiah

Country Director, Liberia

Country office boards

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.

Kamau Wairuri

Director (Kenya)

Kamau Wairuri is the founder of Lotus Consulting and previously worked for McKinsey & Company. He is an experienced analyst and strategist who has advised many business and political leaders on various matters. He has also worked a contracted columnist for one of Kenya's national newspapers, commenting on political and policy matters. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Nairobi and an MSc in African Studies from the University of Oxford. He is currently pursuing a PhD as the University of Edinburgh.

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 [email protected]. 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.

Dhruv Singh

Dhruv is Managing Partner at DEWS Holdings, an investment firm that founds tech companies, buys small businesses, and invests in high-growth companies. Dhruv is (co)founder/owner of Aktivate, Bezant Technologies, Bonfare Provisions, Exubrancy, Panier and Savory; board member/observer to five venture-backed companies; and shareholder in 25+ venture-backed companies. Previously, Dhruv was a management consultant at McKinsey (New York). He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and Choate Rosemary Hall. He lives in Tuxedo Park, NY with his wife Elizabeth (who is also an entrepreneur!) and daughter Emilia "Milly" Wilkes Singh.

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

Mohammed Abdulqader

Field Manager

Lucy Abulo

Senior Manager, Talent & External Relations

Tosin Adeyini

Office and Procurement Manager

Ruchi Agarwal

Senior Global Treasury Manager

Sarah Afraz

Senior Manager, India

CJ Angrist

Platform Data Engineer

Concy Ayet

Procurement Manager, Uganda

Jamie Backhaus

Global Partnerships Manager

Chisomo Banda

Associate Field Manager

Noor Baobeid

Assistant Field Manager

Yazmin Baptiste

Data Associate

Fede Barreras

Humanitarian Manager

Karoline Becker

Research Fellow

Charlotte Bellini

Executive Assistant

Pearl Bitanhirwe

Human Resources Manager, Uganda

Mary Blair

Growth Associate

Diana Bosibori

Recruitment Coordinator

Nathaniel Burbank

Senior Data Scientist

Marie Cadelina

Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition

Jacob Carmichael

Manager, Growth

Driss Chaouki

Associate Field Manager, Morocco

Sara Chedad

Office and Procurement Manager, Morocco

Olivia Chen

Technical Marketing Manager

Daniel Chenoweth

Senior Engineer

Trevor Connolly Carbo

Senior Technical Program Manager

Thomas Counsell

Senior Engineer

Edoardo De Paoli

Global Partnerships Manager

Nirali Desai

Associate, US

Roshni Desai

Technical Program Manager

Julien Devos

Senior Manager, Safety and Security

Hamza Ezzaim

Associate Field Manager, Morocco

Kayla Fishman

Aquisition Marketing Manager

Elisa Gabellieri

Humanitarian Senior Manager

Pranathi Ganni

Technical Program Manager

Ali Ghaleb

Assistant Field Manager

Mohammed Ghazi

Program manager

Nicholas Githinji

Finance Manager

Esnatt Gondwe-Matekesa

Senior Manager, Programs

Jacqueline C. Greene

Associate Field Manager, Safeguarding

Feri Gwata

Global Partnerships Manager

Jon Hall

Engineer

Melissa Harpool

Outreach Coordinator

Walid Herzallah

Senior Manager, Growth

Heidi Hirvonen

Senior Manager, People Engagement

William Howe

Cluster Finance Manager, West & North Africa

Salome Hussein

Program Manager, Kenya

Grace Jackson

Senior Manager, Humanitarian

Sarina Jain

Manager, US Programs

Miguel Jambo

Program Manager, Mozambique

Jendayi Jones

Donor Experience Associate

Saidi Juma

People Operations Manager

Faustah Kago

Office and Procurement Manager, Kenya

Raissa Kalinganire

Human Resources Manager, Rwanda

Swaliho F. Kamara

Senior Manager, Liberia

Agnes Kanjala

Senior Manager, Flex International

Omalha Kanjo

Senior Manager, Flex International

Kamesha Kasolo

Safeguarding Program Manager

Nsubuga Kasozi

Senior Engineer

Yusuf Katushabe

Senior Manager, IT and Information Security

Laura Keen

Senior Manager, US

Emma Kelsey

Senior Manager

Sarah Kenkuyu

External Relations Manager, Rwanda

Peter Kibet

Data Coordinator

Lilian Kimuya

Senior Manager, Finance

Teddy Kinyoro

Senior Manager, Kenya Programs

Pamela Kirabo

Metrics and Quality Associate Field Manager, Rwanda

Leila Lahlou

Associate Field Manager, Morocco

Linda Lamya

Field Manager, Malawi

Kristen Lee

Sr. Manager, Data/Tech

Yonah Lieberman

Senior Manager, Press and Communications

Michael Lillis

Humanitarian Manager

Vera Lummis

Senior Manager, Innovation

Bennis Dahn Madave

Field Manager, Liberia

Violet Magoba

Government Relations Manager

Tanvir Mangat

Data Associate

Nicke Mario

Field Manager, Mozambique

Aubrey Mataka

Finance Manager

Diego Martin

Research Manager

Rachel Mellby

Finance Manager

Lalena Meyerson

Compliance and Grants Manager

Jasmine Miller

Research Manager

Chris Mjima

Program Manager, Malawi

Leonard Moragia

Data Coordinator

Gianmarco Morassutti Vitale

Humanitarian Manager

Chikondi Mphonde

Human Resources Manager

Tom Mtenje

Senior Manager, External Relations

Rudy Mudakikwa

Senior Manager, Finance

Percis Mukyala

Accounting Officer

Sharon Munyazikwiye

Field Manager, Rwanda

Cecilia Mvula

Associate Field Manager, Safeguarding

Mary Nakibirango

Field Manager, Uganda

Vincent Ndegwa

Data Associate

Ndim-Ejor Ndifon

Program Manager, Nigeria

Jerome Ngoga

Data Coordinator

Liana Nierenberg

Compliance Coordinator

Venuste Niyitanga

Associate Field Manager, Rwanda

Moise Niyitegeka

Tech Associate Field Manager, Rwanda

Roben Nshimiyimana

Follow-up Associate Field Manager, Rwanda

Cedric Ntwali

Associate Field Manager, Rwanda

Patience Nuwagira

Office and Procurement Manager, Rwanda

Zondwayo Nyirenda

Associate Field Manager, Malawi

Ronny Obunga

Finance Associate

Derrick Okoth

Recruitment Coordinator

David Onyango

Program Manager, Recipient Advocacy

Calvin Opiyo

IT Manager

Francis Opol

Field Manager, Safeguarding

Kwamina Orleans-Pobee

Engineering Lead, Growth

Mohamed Asif Panduvan

Senior Data Architect

Camille Parker

Research Manager

Andrés Parrado

Senior Manager, Research

Roger Pharr

Technical Program Manager

Marie Sophie Pocha

Senior Manager, North and West Africa

Kazmyn Ramos

Program Manager, US

Paula Romero

Technical Program Manager

Salem Sahaim

Security Manager

Anna Schuck

Senior Manager, Safeguarding

Cristina Sharpe

Recruitment Associate

Amber Shelton

Human Resources Manager, U.S

Prenier Shihemi

People Operations Associate

Maggie Shun

Senior Manager, US Programs

Gilda Simbine

Finance Manager

Winnie Situma

Recruitment Coordinator

Amanda Souza

Salesforce CRM Lead

Nikhil Swaminathan

Technical Program Manager

Zack Tarhouni

Data Coordinator

Sita Tayal

Safeguarding Associate

Ash Taylor-Beierl

Program Manager, Safeguarding

Samantha Tinkamanyire

Program Manager, Uganda

Graham Tyler

Sr. Manager, Data/Tech

Ephrem Uwizeyimana

Finance Manager, Rwanda

Gabriel Varela

Data Associate

Andrew Vaziri

AI Software Engineer, Innovation

Winnie Vivian

Field Manager, Kenya

Jean Wafula

Associate Field Manager, Safeguarding

John Wanjau

Field Manager, Kenya

Benjamin West

Global Partnerships Manager

Dash Wieland

Growth Data Analyst

Julie Xia

Software Engineer

Rohullah Zarif

Executive Assistant