In this episode of the Nour Podcast, I talk to a female leader in the gender-smart and broader impact community whom I deeply admire and look up to: Kanini Mutooni , who is Managing Director at Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. I love so many things about this episode- from the deep human sharing, to the leadership insights and how Kanini and her team are deploying impactful capital on the African continent. We also meander into identity and belonging (#spoiler alert-future season!), and how knowing one's full self allows us to show up in our full "Nour" aka light and radiance.
As a member of the Foundation’s senior leadership team, she plays a lead role in sourcing new investments, deploying capital and helps execute the Foundation’s strategy and goals, while contributing to its thought leadership and external outreach for the African continent from the DRK office in Nairobi. She was was previously MD for Toniic, the global action network for impact investors, is an active Board member for a number of organisations, and has worked at the Board level in leadership positions at investment banks in London and the US, such as Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.