Senior Adviser - UN Strategic Partnerships & Lead Coordinator SDG Partnership Platform, KenyaUN SDG Partnership Platform
ARIF NEKY
Arif Neky is the Senior Advisor for UN Strategic Partnerships at the Resident Coordinator’s Office and the National Coordinator of the SDG Partnership Platform in Kenya - co-created by the UN system and the Government of Kenya. He has also helped in the co-creation of the SDG Accelerator Lab for Kenya. He is Chairman of the Task Force for the National Advisory Board (NAB) for Impact Finance in Kenya and a member of the Africa Venture Philanthropy Alliance SAG (AVPA).
He was the founding Coordinator of the first SDG Philanthropy Platform in Kenya, Founding Co-Chair of the EA Philanthropy Network and helped create the Kenya Philanthropy Forum. Arif is currently active in broadening the SDG Partnership Platform in Kenya to unlock significant private, philanthropic, intellectual and blended finance capital and collaborations to accelerate high priority SDG impacts.
As the former Regional CEO of the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) East Africa for over 13 years, Arif was directly responsible for a wide portfolio of programs in health, education, rural development and civil society enhancement across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
Arif was previously the Regional Representative across Eastern Africa for the French & International Bank - Société Générale where his achievements included blended financing of selected development and infrastructure projects up to 250m French Francs per annum. He was also previously the founder and CEO of the Microsoft certified Academy of Learning in Vancouver, Canada.
Contact Arif Neky at arif.neky@one.un.org