Michelle is a Principal Consultant and the Kenya Country manager at BFA Global. Her areas of expertise focus on Jobtech, refugees, and MSMEs. She leads the Jobtech Alliance at BFA Global and is interested in the role of platforms in offering jobs and opportunities. Jobtech Alliance is an ecosystem initiative that supports platforms through acceleration to enable them to create jobs. She brings over 13 years of global experience working with startups, social enterprises, and development leasing user research, product development, and program implementation in Asia and Africa. Michelle also leads the refugee finance work at BFA Global.
Michelle previously worked as a Research Director at Digital Divide Data, (a Kenyan based research company), where she was involved with a wide range of financial inclusion projects including the implementation of the Kenya Financial Diaries as well as the Tanzania Financial Diaries. Michelle holds a Master's in Public Health focusing on biostatistics and epidemiology from the University of Nairobi.