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Dr. Wycliffe Oluoch is a financial economist and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. His research centres on development finance, with a particular emphasis on access to financial services among microenterprises and the structural and institutional barriers that limit financial inclusion and hinder the growth of women-led enterprises in emerging economies. A PEDL research fellow with CEPR and a former postgraduate merit awardee at Wits, his published work spans fintech and digital finance, climate and green energy finance, and the microstructure of corporate bond markets across Africa. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Dr. Kennedy Mwai

Fellow — Data Science, Machine Learning & Statistical Genetics

Dr. Kennedy Mwai is a Data Scientist at Roche, where he leads the development of scalable data capabilities and end-to-end data harmonization for the African Genomics Program. He previously served as a Data Scientist at The World Bank Group, where he designed job-matching machine learning systems for Ethiopia's Urban Productive Safety Net Program and built interactive Shiny dashboards linking national surveys, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust applying machine learning to high-dimensional immunological data. He holds a PhD in Statistical Modelling and Systems Serology from the University of the Witwatersrand, Heidelberg University Hospital and KEMRI-Wellcome Trust, and has authored 39+ peer-reviewed publications with an h-index of 13.

Dr. Simon M. Kamau is a Lecturer at Egerton University and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg, where he conducts multi-country research on banking, ESG performance, green taxation and sustainable finance across African and developing economies. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of the Witwatersrand, an MBA in Finance from Egerton University, and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA-K). His applied econometric work spans panel-data analysis, causal inference and experimental methods in Stata, R and Python, and he currently serves as co-investigator on a PEDL-funded study of gender disparities in microfinance lending in Ghana.

Dr. John Karuitha is a Financial Economist and Data Scientist with over 15 years of experience in academia, policy research and applied data science, currently serving as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand's School of Construction Economics and Management. He is Head of Department and Lecturer at Karatina University, where he has taught since 2012, and a Data Scientist (Consultant) at Nuit Analytics. His work spans financial development, investment analysis, portfolio management, climate finance and spatial economics, documented through a public portfolio of more than 50 R and Python projects at rpubs.com/Karuitha. He holds a PhD in Financial Economics from Wits, an MBA from Egerton University, and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA-K) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Ms. Beryl Ang'iro

Fellow — Biostatistics, Survival Analysis & Statistical Computing

Ms. Beryl Ang'iro is a statistician and biostatistician completing her PhD in Biostatistics at Hasselt University, Belgium, where her research models high-dimensional multivariate survival data using Frailty and Copula models. She is an Assistant Lecturer at Karatina University, Kenya, where she has taught Statistics and Statistical Computing for over a decade, and was Team Leader on a VLIR-UOS funded capacity-building project in biostatistics for public health innovation in Kenya, conducted in collaboration with Hasselt University, JKUAT, the University of Nairobi and KEMRI. She holds an MSc in Applied Statistics from JKUAT and a BSc in Applied Statistics with Computing (First Class Honours) from Moi University.

Twenty years structuring capital markets and digital transformation deals. Leads IAPT's digital transformation and enterprise risk programmes.