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Our team

Our team and associates share a common vision to unlock development outcomes through insights. Our joint efforts, together with our partners, amplifies the reach and impact of our collective work.
Doubell Chamberlain
Founder and Managing Director
Doubell is the founder and managing director of Cenfri. He has extensi [...]
Steph van der Westhuizen
Chief Operating Officer
Steph is responsible for Cenfri's enablement function, which comprises [...]
Mia Thom
Director of Insights
Mia has extensive experience in how to regulate for innovation and inn [...]
Hennie Bester
Programme Director
Hennie is an experienced public policy strategist working towards an i [...]
Christine Hougaard
Technical Director
Christine has deep experience in market diagnostics (financial inclusi [...]
Barry Cooper
Technical Director
Barry has detailed knowledge in t [...]
Louise de Villiers
Programme Manager for Insights
Louise specialises in survey methodology, questionnaire design and dat [...]
Masiiwa Rusare
Integrity Team Lead
Masiiwa manages research, policy and reg [...]
Jeremy Gray
Resilience Team Lead
Jeremy leads the resilience team and he is focused on better understan [...]
David Saunders
Partnerships and Impact Lead
David brings together partners and teams to amplify the reach and impa [...]
Ntsako Ngobeni
Data Engineer
Ntsako, who joined Cenfri as a Data Engineer in January 2022, [...]
Edwin Byusa
Capacity Building Lead
Edwin has fourteen years experience development with a focus on capaci [...]
Fiacre Mushimire Niyigena
Digital Transformation Policy Lead
Fiacre has over 15 years’ experience in emerging technologies policy [...]
Alessandro Nava
Programme Lead
Alessandro works with private and public sector entities to fully capi [...]
Karen Kühlcke
Strategy, Growth and Impact Manager
Karen focuses on the external environment and market intelligence and [...]
Antonia Esser
Engagement Manager
Antonia focuses on payments: remittances regulation and infrastructure [...]
Albert van der Linden
Engagement Manager
Albert leads the data competency at Cenfri, which aims to enable publi [...]
Kate Rinehart-Smit
Engagement Manager
Kate Rinehart-Smit is an Engagement Manager for Cenfri’s Resilience [...]
Rashid Muhammad
Engagement Manager
Rashid is an experienced financial services practitioner with a focus [...]
Matthew Ferreira
Senior Associate
Matthew's work focuses on shaping the global AML/CFT space in a ma [...]
Roxanne Wylie
Business Intelligence Designer
Roxanne joined Cenfri in 2021 as a Business Intelligence Designer in o [...]
Nichola Beyers
Associate
Nichola has been involved in a number of digital transformation projec [...]
Andrew Partridge
Associate
Andrew joined Cenfri in 2021 after working previously as an economist [...]
Michaella Allen
Associate
Michaella has worked in the Payments and Re [...]
Matthew Dunn
Associate
Since joining in 2018, Matthew been involved in research around region [...]
Pieter Janse van Vuuren
Associate
Since Pieter joined Cenfri’s Risk team in February 2018, his work ha [...]
Lucia Schlemmer
Senior Research Analyst
Lucia Schlemmer is a Senior Researcher at Cenfri and joined the team i [...]
Fabrice Gatwabuyege
Senior Research Analyst
Fabrice Gatwabuyege is a senior researcher in the Integrity team at Ce [...]
Lezanne Janse van Vuuren
Senior Research Analyst
Lezanne joined Cenfri in January 2020 and is currently working as a se [...]
Victor Pérez-Bobadilla
Senior Research Analyst
Victor joined Cenfri in 2021 with a passion for using data and behavio [...]
Kinyanjui Mungai
Senior Research Analyst
Kinyanjui Mungai is a Senior Research Analyst currently working in the [...]
Karien Scribante
Research Analyst
Karien joined Cenfri as a research intern in October 2019 and is now a [...]
Georgina Borros
Research Analyst
Georgina joined Cenfri at the beginning of 2021 as a research analyst. [...]
Sasha Lünsche
Research Analyst
Sasha joined Cenfri in March 2021 as a re [...]
Sophie Gebers
Research Analyst
Before joining Cenfri in January 2022 as a Research Analyst, Sophie wo [...]
James Marriner
Research Analyst
Prior to joining Cenfri as a Research Analyst in January 2022, James w [...]
Antoine Fourié
Creative and Internal Comms Lead
Antoine is an applied linguist, specialised in English language editin [...]
Sarah Goodier
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer
Sarah started as Cenfri’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) [...]
Eden D’Oliveira
Communications Associate
Eden joined Cenfri as Digital Communications Coordinator within the Kn [...]
Estelle Williams
Digital Communications Specialist
Estelle joined Cenfri as the Digital Communications Specialist within [...]
Bryanah Marais
Digital Communications Coordinator
Bryanah joined Cenfri in April 2019 as an Editorial and Communications [...]
Lisa Rossouw
Visual Content Designer
Lisa is the production manager and in-house design consultant, also pr [...]
Melanie Fairhurst
Content Editor and Writing Coach
Melanie joined Cenfri in 2019 as part of the Knowledge Management team [...]
Tessa Kock
Operational Support Manager
Tessa has been part of the Cenfri team since 2009. She has more than [...]
Megan Gorridon
Human Resource Manager
Megan has been part of the Cenfri team since June 2019, as the Human R [...]
Linda Stanford
In-house Accountant
Linda joined Cenfri at the beginning of 2016. Besides being the in-hou [...]
Ntombizonke Notyalwa
Assistant Accountant
Ntombizonke joined Cenfri in November 2019 as an Assistant Accountant, [...]
Gillian Lovatte
Project Portfolio Coordinator
Born and bred in Cape Town, Gillian joined Cenfri in 2017 as a Project [...]
Ismail Samsodien
HR Generalist
Ismail joined Cenfri in January 2019. As a member of our Enablement te [...]
Linet Engelbrecht
Travel Desk and Office Manager
Before joining Cenfri in 2013, Linet worked in public relations for se [...]
Amanda Schoeman
Personal Assistant
Amanda  joined Cenfri in February 2016. She has nearly 40 years’ se [...]
Thirza Stevens
Personal Assistant
Thirza joined Cenfri in August 2018 as the personal assistant to the m [...]
Lemmy Manje
Lemmy is the Founding Partner and CEO of  [...]
Nigel Bowman
Nigel is a highly experienced actuary and insurance professional. Prio [...]
Iske van den Berg
Iske is a qualitative research specialist with 25 years’ experienc [...]
Wicus Coetzee
Wicus is an independent consultant who works closely with Cenfri and w [...]
John Symington
John is the owner and director of Compliance & Risk Resources (Pty [...]
Louis de Koker
Louis was a founding director and previous board member of Cenfri. He [...]
Anja Smith
Anja Smith joined Cenfri in 2008 as one of its founding staff members. [...]
Rochelle Jacobs
Rochelle has spent the past three years working as a behavioural pract [...]
Vera Neugebauer
Vera currently specialises in the fields of payments and inclusive fin [...]
Doubell Chamberlain
Founder and Managing Director
Doubell is the founder and managing director of Cenfri. He has extensi [...]
Shungu Chirunda
Chair of the Cenfri Board
Shungu is the new Chair of the Cenfri Board. She brings a wealth of ex [...]
Olayinka David-West
Board member
Professor Olayinka David-West is an Information Systems professional w [...]
Meshach Aziakpono
Board member
Meshach is a non-executive board member of Cenfri and a professor of [...]
Raimund Snyders
Board member
Raimund is a Partner at Leapfrog Investments who brings to bear his ex [...]
Sharron McPherson
Board member
Sharron is a non-executive board member of Cenfri and former Wall Stre [...]
Lesiba Mothata
Board member
Lesiba is a non-executive board member of Cenfri and the Chief Econom [...]
Herman Singh
Board member
Herman is an innovative business thinker and a high impact player who [...]
John Steytler
John is the Director of Economic Research at Bank of Namibia. He is a [...]
Maya Makanjee
Maya was the former CEO of FinMark Trust, and prior to that, Corporate [...]
Prega Ramsamy
Prega was the CEO of FinMark Trust and the second Executive Secre [...]
Louis de Koker
Louis was a founding director and previous board member of Cenfri. He [...]
Anne-Marie Chidzero
Former Chair
Anne-Marie was the original chair of the Cenfri Board. She is  [...]
Hennie Bester
Programme Director
Hennie is an experienced public policy strategist working towards an i [...]
Frik Landman
Former Chair
Frik is the former Chair of the Cenfri Board. In January 2005, he was [...]
Craig Churchill
Craig has over 20 years’ microfinance experience, in both developed [...]
Andrew le Roux
Andrew is a qualified actuary who spent 20 years at Old Mutual before [...]
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