GIVEDIRECTLY - Key Persons
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- Senior Manager, Flex International
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- Regional Director, International
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman ( US )
- Director at McKinsey & Company
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.
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- Human Resources Manager, U.S
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- AI Software Engineer, Innovation
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- Senior Manager, Safeguarding
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- Program Manager, Safeguarding
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- Vice President, Technology
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- Global Partnerships Manager
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- Director, Recipient Safeguarding and Advocacy
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- Associate Field Manager, Safeguarding
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- Associate Field Manager, Rwanda
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- Procurement Manager, Uganda
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- Program Manager, Recipient Advocacy
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- Advisor
- Managing Partner at DEWS Holdings
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.
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- Associate Field Manager, Morocco
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- Global Partnerships Manager
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- Humanitarian Senior Manager
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Country Director, Ethiopia
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- Office and Procurement Manager, Kenya
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- Global Partnerships Manager
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- Field Manager, Safeguarding
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- Senior Manager, Humanitarian
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- Accounting Director
- Finance
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- Associate Field Manager, Morocco
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- Senior Manager, People Engagement
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- Advisor
- Managing Director at General Catalyst
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.
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- Associate Field Manager, Safeguarding
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- 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.
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- Global Partnerships Manager
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Country Director, Morocco
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- Associate Field Manager, Safeguarding
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- Donor Experience Associate
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- Managing Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
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- Country Director, Liberia
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- Advisor
- Managing Director at H2O Venture Partners
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.
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- Senior Manager, Safety and Security
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- Director ( Kenya )
- Founder of Lotus Consulting and Previously Worked for McKinsey & Company
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.
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- Safeguarding Program Manager
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- Aquisition Marketing Manager
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- Compliance and Grants Manager
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- Associate Field Manager, Morocco
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- Senior Manager, Talent & External Relations
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- Regional Director, East Africa
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- Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition
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- Senior Manager, North and West Africa
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Executive Chair, Co - Founder
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- Program Manager, Mozambique
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- Tech Associate Field Manager, Rwanda
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- Chief of Staff
- Member of the Leadership Team
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Director, Partnerships
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- Field Manager, Mozambique
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- Technical Program Manager
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- Technical Marketing Manager
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- Senior Manager, Flex International
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- Metrics and Quality Associate Field Manager, Rwanda
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- Office and Procurement Manager, Rwanda
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).
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- Chairman
- Co - Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
- 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."
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- Technical Program Manager
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- Human Resources Manager, Uganda
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- Technical Program Manager
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- People Operations Associate
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- Board Member ( Malawi )
- Digital Development Specialist
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.
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- Human Resources Manager, Rwanda
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- Follow - Up Associate Field Manager, Rwanda
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- Technical Program Manager
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Principal
- 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.
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- President
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- Technical Program Manager
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- Senior Global Treasury Manager
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- People Operations Manager
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- Director, Program Technology
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- Director ( Kenya )
- Founder & CEO of Farasi Strategy Advisors Ltd
Samuel Mwamburi Mwale is Founder & CEO of 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 & 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 Ministry of Planning & National Development and National Economic & Social Council. Mr. Mwale holds a master's degree in agricultural economics from University of Oxford, a Postgraduate Diploma in Development Economics from University of East Anglia, a Bachelor of Science in Range Management from University of Nairobi, and has attended executive training on policy analysis at Stanford University and leadership at Harvard University.
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- Office and Procurement Manager, Morocco
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- External Relations Manager, Rwanda
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- Vice President, Development
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- Regional Director, North and West Africa
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- Senior Manager, External Relations
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- Senior Technical Program Manager
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- Associate Field Manager, Rwanda
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- Senior Manager, Innovation
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- Government Relations Manager
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Country Director, Mozambique
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- Cluster Finance Manager, West & North Africa
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.
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- Vice President, Partnerships
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- Senior Manager, Press and Communications
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- Senior Manager, IT and Information Security
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- Associate Field Manager, Malawi