Elizabeth Kiamba is a Financial Sector Specialist at CGAP, where she leads initiatives that integrate financial services into carbon markets, ensuring that low-income communities and women benefit from climate finance. She has also worked on advancing impact measurement and management (IMM) frameworks for inclusive finance investors, developing innovative financial models for micro and small enterprises, gig workers, and women, and promoting gender lens investing to enhance women’s financial inclusion.
Before joining CGAP, Elizabeth was the Manager of Inclusive Finance Programs at FSD Africa, where she oversaw a portfolio of financial inclusion projects across sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on credit markets, digital finance, remittances, and informal finance. She also served as the organization’s gender focal person, ensuring gender considerations were embedded in financial sector development programs. Previously, Elizabeth worked at PwC Kenya, where she provided advisory services to public sector entities, NGOs, and major international donors and multilateral organizations across sub–Saharan Africa.
Elizabeth holds a Master of Arts degree in Development Management from the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE) at Ruhr University in Germany, and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management (Finance and Banking) from Moi University in Kenya. She is a Certified Expert in ESG and Impact Investing, Project Manager (PRINCE2 Practitioner) and Accountant (CPA).