Deputy CEOSmall Foundation
Liz is Deputy CEO at Small Foundation, an innovative family foundation focused on increasing income-generating opportunities for poor rural people in sub-Saharan Africa, through MSME development. A philanthropic funder with extensive global experience, Liz manages the foundation's expertise and practice around impact networks, systems, impact management, and communications.
Previously Liz has worked as deputy director and co-founder at Agriculture for Impact and the Malabo Montpellier Panel, based in Imperial College London. As a project officer in DFID China, she worked on partnership initiatives to pilot climate change adaptation and sustainable urban development strategies. She also worked for a humanitarian health charity in the DRC and the UK, and served as a diplomat in the UK Embassy in China.
Liz is a trustee of Nigerian non-profit The Visiola Foundation and the UK charity and grant maker Enterprise for Development.