Meet our fellows

The fellowship experience forms a distinguishing characteristic of the LGT approach to venture philanthropy. Besides awarding grants, LGT Venture Philanthropy contributes to portfolio organisations by matching talented professionals who can help build capabilities on the ground and boost know-how. 

To date, 193 professionals have completed the fellowship, contributing thousands of hours of knowledge transfer to our portfolio organisations. For more information on our LGT Impact Fellows, take a look at their Impact Reports.

2025 LGT Impact Fellowship Cohort

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Blessings Lihasi

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

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Brian Otieno Owuor

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

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Chinedu George Nnawetanma

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

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Enock Musaana

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

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Eric Gaitho Macharia

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

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Joyce Makau

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

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Gbenga Oyedele

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

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Kiana Sinclair

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

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Kunal Dongre

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

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Senthil Balasubramanian

Resource Mobilisation Officer - 2025 cohort

Led the design and implementation of KWCA's resource mobilisation strategy for sustainable financing of the organization’s goals. Helped diversify KWCA's capital sources to pursue a range of strategic, donor and market-based instruments.

Impact Report Senthil Balasubramanian

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Teboho Moleko

Research Specialist - 2025 cohort

Worked with Harambee in the Impact and Intelligence team leading Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for the Digital and Global Business Service Jobs project. Also supported on research and reporting on youth self-employment pathways.

Impact Report Teboho Moleko

2024 LGT Impact Fellowship Cohort

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Fatouma Sokona

Country Support Coordinator - 2024 cohort

Worked with AMP health to strengthen internal systems and processes thereby improving coordination and program delivery. Led the design and implementation of the Management Partner (MP) Lifecycle framework.

Impact Report Fatouma Sokona

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Chidinma Okoli

Principal, Mergers & Acquisitions & Investor Relations - 2024 cohort

Worked with the corporate development team at Moniepoint, covering mergers and acquisitions (M&A), international expansion, investor relations (IR) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) activities.

Impact Report Chidinma Okoli

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Peter Ngugi

Partnerships and Business Development Fellow - 2024 cohort

Worked with the Resource Development and Country Management Unit at mothers2mothers to support fundraising, donor engagement, grant management, and strategic initiatives across country programmes.

Impact Report Peter Ngugi

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Benjamin Mukasa

Country Manager (Uganda) - 2024 cohort

Led a strategic turnaround at 4G capital that focused on profitability, operational efficiency, and expanding access to finance for underserved MSMEs. He oversaw finance, operations, product, people, performance, compliance and impact.

Impact Report Benjamin Mukasa

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Joshua Kibirige

Public Policy Analyst - 2024 cohort

Supported the strategic communications at Harambee with research & strategy to communicate key issues to stakeholders. Focused on alignment of messaging and engagement to South Africa’s shifting political, social, and economic landscape.

Impact Report Joshua Kibirige

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Akshat Saxena

Management Fellow - 2024 cohort

Supported Living Landscapes - Common Ground Initiative through partnership coordination, long-term strategy development, and end-to-end support of the project cycle of a multi-stakeholder initiative.

Impact Report Akshat Saxena

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Jonathan Bii

Communications Lead - 2024 cohort

Developed and led OMCP's first communications strategy to engage stakeholders and raise awareness. Created a clear brand identity and a radio and community campaign in the Greater Mara, thus laying the groundwork for OMCP to own its narrative.

Impact Report Jonathan Bii

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Aarushi Gupta

Investment Associate - 2024 cohort

Worked closely with regional and global teams to shape LGT VP's new Early Childhood Development (ECD) strategy and portfolio in India. Also led potential new investments aligned with LGT VP’s investment thesis and thematic focus on ECD.

Impact Report Aarushi Gupta

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Gita Osei-Bonsu

Grants and Compliance Fellow - 2024 cohort

Worked within the Grants and Compliance team at mothers2mothers, supporting the organisation to meet donor requirements, ensure ethical standards, and build partner capacity.

Impact Report Gita Osei-Bonsu

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