Raikundalia, Sheena

Sheena Raikundalia has over 16 years of experience in the legal, financial services and impact investment sectors in Europe and Africa and over 7 years’ board experience.  
 
She is extremely passionate and confident about the potential in Africa. With her diverse experience, she understands and has strong networks with the government, corporate, international donor, investor and local tech entrepreneur/hub perspective. 
 
She is currently working as the Chief Growth Officer with Kuza One, an agri-tech, digitizing the agriculture value chain through its tech platform and network of on the ground rural agripreneurs. Prior to this she worked with the British Government in Kenya as the Country Director of the UK-Kenya Tech Hub.  
 
She has had a diverse career- a solicitor in London , a senior advisor in Kenya to an impact investing group, where she provided strategic advisory services to financial institutions, start-ups, corporations, development agencies and NGOs across the African market. She is proud to add failed entrepreneur as one of her achievements, having learnt more in that intense period than all her experience combined! 
 
She has held non-executive director positions in the UK and in Kenya in institutions such as schools, SMEs, MFIs, co-chaired the ICT Donor Group in Kenya and chairs the Resource and Partnership Committee Board at the Kenya National Innovation Agency, which sits under the Ministry of Education.  
 
She is a U.K. qualified solicitor with a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Bristol and an MBA from Lord Ashcroft International Business School.Sheena Raikundalia has over 16 years of experience in the legal, financial services and impact investment sectors in Europe and Africa and over 7 years’ board experience. She is extremely passionate and confident about the potential in Africa. With her diverse experience, she understands and has strong networks with the government, corporate, international donor, investor and local tech entrepreneur/hub perspective. She is currently working as the Chief Growth Officer with Kuza One, an agri-tech, digitizing the agriculture value chain through its tech platform and network of on the ground rural agripreneurs. Prior to this she worked with the British Government in Kenya as the Country Director of the UK-Kenya Tech Hub. She has had a diverse career- a solicitor in London , a senior advisor in Kenya to an impact investing group, where she provided strategic advisory services to financial institutions, start-ups, corporations, development agencies and NGOs across the African market. She is proud to add failed entrepreneur as one of her achievements, having learnt more in that intense period than all her experience combined! She has held non-executive director positions in the UK and in Kenya in institutions such as schools, SMEs, MFIs, co-chaired the ICT Donor Group in Kenya and chairs the Resource and Partnership Committee Board at the Kenya National Innovation Agency, which sits under the Ministry of Education. She is a U.K. qualified solicitor with a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Bristol and an MBA from Lord Ashcroft International Business School. 

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Speaking in
IASP 2024
Breakout 13: Food tech and climate change