London, England, United Kingdom
Sustainable finance, risk and impact professional with 4+ years of experience across sustainable finance, ratings and advisory for capital markets, and emerging-market impact investment. My background spans private market/levfin/high-yield ESG analysis, macroeconomic and country risk analytics (Macro/ESG), advisory and technical assistance on impact-driven debt investments in Sub-Saharan Africa. I am skilled in data analytics, including Excel, VBA, PowerBI, Python, and FactSet, and I have contributed to building datasets, scoring methodologies, and analytical tools that support investor decision-making and strategy. I am entrepreneurial, having founded the Global Development Collective (GDC), a early-stage platform publishing free datasets and analytical content on impact, sustainable investing and international development. Passionate about combining analytics with practical impact, I enjoy working in dynamic teams, contributing across functions, and supporting initiatives that strengthen transparency and effectiveness in sustainable finance and impact investing. Key skills: ESG & Impact Analysis | Sustainable Finance | Capital Markets | Financial Analysis | Data Analytics & Visualization | Impact and Risk Measurement | Emerging/Frontier Markets | Stakeholder engagement
I provided sustainability analysis to support investors and issuers in the high-yield and structured credit markets. • Produce ESG assessments and transaction-related sustainability reports for LBOs, CLOs, and other leveraged finance instruments. • Evaluate companies’ alignment with key sustainability standards and frameworks, including the EU Taxonomy, SDGs, SBTI, and more. • Deliver data-driven, decision-useful insights to help clients meet due diligence, disclosure, and regulatory reporting requirements. • Monitor evolving sustainable finance regulations relevant to the leveraged finance market. • Contribute to the refinement of ESG scoring methodologies and analytical coverage. • Maintain analytics tools on the leveraged finance transactions. • Industries covered: financial services, telecoms, and infrastructure
Investment Risk Data Analyst in the Country Risk data team at Verisk Maplecroft, specialising in macroeconomic and ESG risk. Providing tailored analytics and insights to help drive decision making within financial and non-financial sectors. • Provide data driven insight for clients. Including forecasts, and creating risk dashboards/models. • Lead analyst on macro-economic and Development country data – involves building, managing, and enhancing a global dataset of 30+ macroeconomic, development, and financial indicators that help clients benchmark country performance and respond to economic and ESG risks. • Provide strategic advisory to banks, asset managers and other financials clients on the use of data within ESG and risk related workflows. • Support clients in complying with regulations and industry standards; PRI, SFDR, EU Green Taxonomy, and climate-related financial disclosures. • Delivered 10+ new data products, producing significant ROI. • Produced thought leadership pieces with regional (Sub-Saharan Africa) and thematic focus (sustainable investing, ESG, infrastructure, and SLB issuances).
Provided strategic advisory, capital solutions and technical assistance to the retail banking sector in key Sub-Saharan African markets. Key Achievements: • Due Diligence: Led due diligence process for 50+ prospective financial institution partners, analysing financial statements, ESG indicators and presenting these reports to risk committee. • Business Development: Grew financial institution partners from 60 to over 100. • Led technical assistance in Ethiopia, a key market for international donors, but also a challenging market due to capital and macro economics constraints. Grew business footprint with 'Top 5' commercial banks. • Partnered with impact investors to originate and execute $20M+ in debt investments across 20+ institutions. • Oversaw social lending portfolios of over 30 financial institutions, offering strategic advisory regarding portfolio management, implementing credit risk mitigation tools, and impact reporting frameworks.