Meet our fellows

Investment Associate Fellow

She will support the environment portfolio in launching an Oceans Collective, including a pilot in Indonesia, through go-to-market strategy, partner identification, capital structuring, reporting, partner management, and onboarding.

LGT Venture Philanthropy

About the Fellow: Anushka Saraf

Learning, Measurement and Evaluation Fellow

She will strengthen Learning, Monitoring and Evaluation (LME) practices across the organisation, enabling evidence-based decision-making, organisational learning, and adaptive programme management to enhance impact.

Living Landscapes - Common Ground Initiative

About the Fellow: Dhanashree Gurudu

Director - Strategic Communications

She will oversee the organisation's "thought leadership" communications portfolio, manage restricted award deliverables, and lead the organisation's 20th anniversary campaign.

Last Mile Health

About the Fellow: Elissa Dakers

Evidence, Policy and Advocacy Fellow

She will be generating evidence and advocate for policies that strengthen health financing for community-led health systems and advance countries' progress toward Universal Health Coverage.

Financing Alliance for Health

About the Fellow: Esohe Okuomose

Investment Associate Fellow

He will accelerate the SIRA Initiative by building a consortium of funders and implementers, establishing governance and MOUs with state governments, and supporting early childhood pilots from design through delivery.

LGT Venture Philanthropy

About the Fellow: Naman Gupta

Investment Associate Fellow

He will support the Lightrock investment team across the investment cycle, including market research, evaluating opportunities, financial modelling, due diligence, and preparing investment materials, while supporting portfolio companies on strategic and operational priorities as they scale.

Lightrock

About the Fellow: Ridwan Ali

Investment Associate - 2025 cohort

At LGT Venture Philanthropy, she worked with the Environment team to help shape Ahadi, its East Africa environment portfolio. Supported multiple workstreams across the investment process from screening to completion and portfolio reporting.

Impact Report Blessings Lihasi

Fundraising Fellow - 2025 cohort 

Supported MMWCA in diversification of its donor base and stewardship of donors to drive fundraising efforts. Assist in cultivating donor relationships, developing campaigns, and contributing to the creation of proposals and concept notes.

Impact Report Brian Otieno Owuor

Fiscal Sponsorship Program Manager - 2025 cohort  

Led the execution and expansion of the fiscal sponsorship program at the FAH. Oversaw the end-to-end delivery of the initiative, encompassing internal systems strengthening, relationship management, and partnership development. 

Impac Report Chinedu Nnawetanma

Senior Fellow MERL - 2025 cohort

Worked to advance FAH's use of evidence for learning, decision-making, donor accountability, and strategic growth. Contributed to organisational learning systems, MERL design, grant frameworks, reporting and advisory support.

Impact Report Enock Musaana

Project Accounts Fellow - 2025 cohort

Supported KWCA with financial management and operationalisation of key donor-funded initiatives working closely partner conservancies to strengthen budgeting, compliance, financial reporting, and grant management.

Impact Report Eric Gaitho Macharia

Monitoring and Evaluation Fellow - 2025 cohort

Led the development of MMWCA's 2026-2036 Strategic Plan, guiding stakeholder engagement and aligning organisational priorities with its long-term vision through an evidence-based planning process.

Impact Report Joyce Makau

FP&A & Business Intelligence Manager - 2025 cohort

Supported Atreos in systematizing the process of gathering financial data and making a more informed decision based on the data. Built all the business intelligence dashboards and doubled as a technical assistant to the CEO and CFO.

Impact Report Gbenga Oyedele

Senior Fellow - Partnerships and Grants Management - 2025 cohort

Collaborated with the Partnerships team at FAH on donor outreach, positioning, and major events planning. Led the construction of the Financing Alliance for Health 2026-2027 advocacy strategy.

Impact Report Kiana Sinclair

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager - 2025 cohort

Led budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis at Educate Girls to support programmatic and organisational decision-making capacity. Helped build budgets, track spend against grants and model program costs for scalability.

Impact Report Kunal Dongre