Wambui Chege

With over 24 years of experience, Wambui Chege is a seasoned advisory services professional with experience in international development, private sector development and communications in sub-Saharan Africa, the US and Asia. She currently works with KPMG East Africa where she leads the firm’s agribusiness work in the region.

Passionate about the catalytic role of development finance, Wambui has been involved in some of the most cutting edge programmes on the Continent. Between 2014 – 2019, Wambui was Team Leader of the Mastercard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity (FRP), a seven-year US$50 million challenge fund where she led the design and implementation of the fund. Under her leadership, FRP evolved to be a cutting edge fund supporting some of the best innovations in financial inclusion for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.

At the International Finance Corporation (IFC) the private sector arm of the World Bank, Wambui led the design and implementation of the organization’s first housing finance programs on the Continent, aimed at developing mortgage markets. Her other areas of work included SME banking and agrifinance as well as advising governments. Prior to working with IFC in 2006, Wambui worked for nearly eight years as a commodities and financial markets correspondent with Reuters in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa.

Wambui has a Masters Degree in International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University in the City of New York and a Bachelor of Commerce from Kenyatta University, Kenya. She is an independent Board member of Fairtrade Africa. In her spare time, Wambui enjoys running, dancing and travelling.