Strategic Partnerships Advisor/Skoll Scholar AlumniBuild Change
Ntongi McFadyen currently serves as the Strategic Partnerships Advisor at Build Change - the global leader for systems change in disaster- and climate-resilient housing, and an award-winning social innovator. Ntongi works to unlock public and private capital to positively shift the trajectory for many of the one billion people living in vulnerable homes, particularly women.
Ntongi has 15+ years of professional experience in building the economic resilience and financial inclusion of some of the most vulnerable communities around the globe. In pursuit of delivering entrepreneurial solutions that improve social and economic well-being, she has assumed leadership, management, and advisory roles, and earned an MBA from Oxford University, where she was a Skoll Scholar for Social Entrepreneurship. She has bridged the fields of international development and social enterprise through her work in microfinance, entrepreneurship, employment, disaster risk, and health insurance.