Our Global Team
Peter Malika
Global LFI Manager & Chief Technical Advisor
Prior to joining UNCDF, Peter was the Regional Director at E+CO a clean tech. fund; Director of the KPMG’s Risk and Advisory Services practice. He has over 20 years of substantive leadership experience in international development and trade, fortune 500 corporate centered experience & management consulting, management of global and regional operations, and expertise in financing for development and solutions. Peter has served the United Nations in different capacities at national, regional and global levels. led cross cutting innovative in local economic development and governance; climate resilience; poverty reduction; private sector development; gender and development; and advisory services, knowledge management and partnerships, across Africa and Asia
Imanuel Muro
Senior Investment Officer (Tanzania)
Prior to joining UNCDF served as Investment Officer (E+CO clean energy fund); Chair of Fanikiwa Microfinance Company; 10 years’ as Portfolio Support Manager for The U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) an independent U.S. government agency established by Congress to invest in African grassroots organizations, entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises. USADF's investments promote local economic development by increasing incomes, revenues and jobs, and creating pathways to prosperity for marginalized populations and underserved communities.
Abraham Byamungu
LFI Senior Investment Officer (Tanzania)
Prior to joining UNCDF, Abraham served at managerial level in different international and regional banks in Tanzania. He has worked with Barclays Bank, Exim Bank and Bank of Africa. Before joining the banking industry, Abraham worked with KPMG Tanzania as Audit Senior. In addition, he has over 13 years’ experience in banking, local economic development, financial management, and business advisory.
Stella Lyatuu
LFI Investment Officer (Tanzania)
Prior to joining UNCDF, Stella worked for the Ministry of Local Governments as a Senior Financial Management officer, in the areas of LGAs finance, fiscal decentralization, financial analysis, project finance and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). She has extensive experience of supporting public sector investments including the structuring of commercial infrastructure investments.
Michael Mboowa
LFI Investment Officer (Uganda)
Prior to joining UNCDF, Michael was the Director – Financial Advisory at Bronkar (U) Ltd providing financial services to SMEs including; preparation for equity investments, business plans, financial analysis, assessment and implementation of internal controls. He was also an Audit Senior at Deloitte East Africa prior to that.
Malimu Museru
LFI Investment Officer (Tanzania)
Prior to joining UNCDF, he worked at Ernst & Young in Tanzania as a Manager, Transaction Advisory Services providing buy-side and sell-side advisory to clients in all transaction–including financial due diligence, valuation of businesses, feasibility studies, pre- and post-acquisition reviews, etc. Prior to that he worked at Riscura (www.riscura.com/what-we-do/investment-advisory) providing private equity advisory services to some of Africa’s largest pension funds and private equity funds. He executed transactions in sectors including manufacturing, agribusiness, and infrastructure covering Southern Africa, West Africa and the MENA region.
Sharmeen Hossain
LFI Investment Officer (Bangladesh)
She obtained her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and BBA from Babson College in the US. She started her career at JPMorgan as a certified Sales Trader advising large mutual and hedge funds in Boston and New York investing in US institutional equities. She dedicated her mid-career to developing the secondary equities markets in India and Bangladesh as an Investment Banker specializing in Issue Management (IPOs, RPOs, Rights and Preferred Shares) and Corporate Advisory (M&A and Restructuring) of local corporates. Her passion for advising growth companies led her to work in structured finance and issue debt, mezzanine debt, bonds, REITs and commercial paper and other securities in niche markets. Before UNCDF, she led the Structured Finance desk at a boutique investment bank which also pioneered Public Private Partnership investment vehicles for large infrastructure transactions as well.
Sirra Foon
LFI Investment Officer (The Gambia)
Prior to joining UNCDF, Sirra worked as Business Planning Manager/Research & Actuarial Manager at the Social Security and Housing Finance Corporation, The Gambia. Sirra works at UNCDF Gambia as an Investment Officer (LFI) for the “Jobs, Skills and Finance (JSF) for Women and Youth in The Gambia” Programme providing technical assistance and capital to climate smart LED investments.
Fidelis Luteganya
LFI Investment Officer (Tanzania)
Prior to joining UNCDF, Fidelis worked for UNDP and UNCDF in Tanzania for over 4 years as Finance Analyst. He previously worked as Accountant in the private and public sector in Tanzania at various levels. Fidelis is an Investment officer with UNCDF-Tanzania office for the past three years working on LED project development and financing with a focus on the One UN Kigoma Joint Programme/Youth Women and Economic Empowerment implementation.
Dian Balde
LFI Investment Officer (Guinea)
Prior to joining UNCDF, Dian worked as an Investment Manager and advisor to the CEO of ENE, a French investment company specializing in infrastructure development in the energy and ICT sectors in Europe and Africa for 6 years. He also has experience in economic and policy advisory in France and Africa with consulting firms mandated by governments and donors, combining economic and financial tools to carry out cost-benefit analysis, value for money assessment, ex-ante and ex-post socio-economic impact assessment and regulatory impact assessment. Dian is the LFI investment officer in Guinea supporting the INTEGRA programme.
Deus Tirwakunda
Manager, UNCDF Start Facility Programme (Uganda)
Prior to joining UNCDF, Deus worked with Kilimo Trust for over 10 years where he rose from Accountant position to that of Director for Finance & Administration. He previously worked as a Senior Auditor with the Accounting Firm - Kazibwe, Kenneth & Steven Certified Public Accountants. He now the UNCDF’s START Facility Manager, a blended finance facility under the food security and nutrition component of Development Initiative for Northern Uganda (DINU) Program.
Ddamulira Ivan Bbaale
Programme Analyst, Investment for the DINU Programme-START Facility (Uganda)
Prior to joining UNCDF, he started his career at Barclays Bank Limited, Kampala, Uganda and worked there for 12 years in several roles including Branch Operations Manager; Operational Risk Advisor; and Corporate Credit Manager. Currently works as a Programme Analyst- Investment for the DINU Programme- START Facility based in Kampala, Uganda.
Fred Duhaga
Programme Analyst, Investment for the DINU Programme-START Facility (Uganda)
Prior to joining UNCDF he worked as a Credit Officer with Uganda Microfinance Ltd until 2008. In addition, he was a Senior Credit Officer at Equity Bank; a credit supervisor FINA/GTBank; and a project/Investment officer at Oikocredit international- East African. He is currently the Programme Analyst -Investment on DINU/START Facility Uganda.
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