Senior Executive, Small Foundation
Karina Wong is Senior Executive at Small Foundation, a philanthropic foundation based in Ireland. Small Foundation aims to catalyse the proliferation of sustainable income-generating opportunities for extremely poor people in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa by supporting highly-leveraged interventions that improve the business ecosystem for small and medium rural enterprises through expanding access to knowledge, finance, technology, and markets. Karina leads on executing Small Foundation’s social investment strategy through in-depth partnerships with intermediaries, investors and entrepreneurs in Africa and globally.
Karina has over 17 years of experience in finance and international development working with a wide range of organizations from for-profit Fortune 500 companies to non-profit community based organizations. She has been involved in impact investing in Africa for the past decade, and her interest lies in the intersection of entrepreneurial development and poverty alleviation. Karina has a Bachelor’s degree from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and a Master’s degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.