Joel is a Director at Wellspring with over a decade of experience in strategy and development consulting. His areas of expertise include agribusiness finance, renewable energy, and impact measurement. Joel has deep experience across East, West, and Southern Africa and was based in Nairobi for over 5 years.
Joel has over 12 years of experience advising businesses, investors, and donors on strategy, project development, and impact measurement. His work has focused on the design, implementation and evaluation of programmes and funds focused on agriculture, food security and nutrition, energy access, and climate across Africa and Asia, as well as conducting research and policy analysis to guide government and investor decision making. This has included leading evaluations of EBRD’s EUR 2 billion+ agribusiness portfolio, a mid-term evaluation of AECF’s Renewable Energy Sub-Saharan Africa fund, and a review of AgDevCo’s TA facility with a view to informing future strategy around investment and technical assistance.
Joel led the design of a nutrition-lens investing framework which is currently being used by USAID, USDFC, Aceli Africa, and several other funds to identify nutrition investments, as well as advising several FCDO programmes on how to better integrate nutrition into their activities. He also brings deep experience designing MEL frameworks for agriculture programmes and funds, including the World Bank’s $12m Sierra Leone Agricultural Development Fund (SLADF) and MasterCard Foundation’s $50m Fund for Rural Prosperity. Joel holds an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and a BA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Exeter.
