We are pleased to announce that Leah Kibe has been appointed Special Advisor to the Africa Capital Hub (ACH) Advisory Board. The ACH works to strengthen capital, investment, and partnership ecosystems that advance Africa-led impact and social development priorities.
Leah has held senior leadership roles at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, where she served as Africa Director, Co-Funding & Partnerships, and Country Director, Kenya. At KPMG East Africa, she led international development and development finance advisory mandates across Africa and beyond. Her experience spans multi-donor investments and portfolios across 24 Sub-Saharan African countries.
Leah has also worked to build Africa's philanthropy and development finance ecosystem – founding the Africa Corporate Philanthropy Leaders Initiative, co-convening AfricaXChange with the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, and serving as Secretariat Lead for the Multilateral Development Bank Philanthropy Forum (Africa).
She is currently Principal, Strategic Partnerships & Catalytic Capital, at Catalyst Impact Collective.
Chair of the ACH Advisory Board, Dr Mahmoud Mohieldin, comments: “I warmly welcome Leah as Special Advisor to the ACH Advisory Board. Her deep experience in mobilising capital and building partnerships across governments, development finance institutions, and philanthropic organisations in Africa will strengthen our ability to unlock investment at scale for the continent’s most pressing environmental and social development priorities.”
Leah comments: “I am delighted to have been appointed Special Advisor to the ACH Advisory Board. I look forward to working with the Board and the wider BwB team to advance the ACH’s mandate to support the sustainable development priorities of nations across Africa, directing catalytic capital to where it is most urgently needed.”
Learn more about the Africa Capital Hub here.