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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 [...]
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 started her career in [...]
Barry Cooper
Technical Director
Barry has detailed knowledge in t [...]
Jeremy Gray
Technical Director
Jeremy is a Technical Director at Cenfri. H [...]
Stefan Steffen
Technical Director
Stefan is the Technical Director for Data and AI at Cenfri. As a leade [...]
Louise de Villiers
Head of Operations
Louise specialises in survey methodology, questionnaire design and dat [...]
Antonia Esser
Principal
Antonia, who has a keen interest and wide knowledge base in payments, [...]
Christiaan Loots
Principal
Christiaan leads the Sectoral Economic Transformation theme within Cen [...]
Amina Khan
Senior Engagement Manager
Drawing on her foundation as a Chartered Ac [...]
Rose Tuyeni Peter
Senior Partnerships Manager
Rose splits her time between partnership management, as part of the St [...]
Arlette Rwakazina
Rwanda Country & Partnership Lead
Arlette is the Rwanda Country Lead and the [...]
Angelos Munezero
Policy Lead
Angelos is the Policy Lead for the Rwanda Economy Digitalisation Progr [...]
Kevin Kabera
Data Capability Development Manager
Kevin is a Rwandan professional with extensive [...]
Karen Kühlcke
Strategy, Growth and Impact Manager
Karen manages the Strategy, Growth and Impact portfolio at Cenfris. Sh [...]
Albert van der Linden
Principal
Albert leads the data competency at Cenfri, which aims to enable publi [...]
Ntsako Ngobeni
Data Engineer
Ntsako, who joined Cenfri as a Data Engineer in January 2022, [...]
Fiacre Mushimire Niyigena
Programme Advisor
Fiacre has over 15 years’ experience in emerging technologies policy [...]
Rememberance Chimeri
MEL Specialist
Remembrance joined Cenfri in June 2024 as a MEL specialist. He is a de [...]
Shivaan Sook
Data Scientist
Shivaan is a data scientist with ex [...]
Nichola Beyers
Engagement Manager
Nichola has been involved in a number of digital transformation projec [...]
Pieter Janse van Vuuren
Senior Associate
Pieter Janse van Vuurenis a Senior Associate and Data Analyst in Cenfr [...]
Matthew Ferreira
Engagement Manager
Matthew is a development economist with 10 yea [...]
Victor Amedzo Kanyama
Senior Research Analyst
Victor is an economist and strategist with over eight years of experie [...]
Vera Neugebauer
Senior Engagement Manager
Vera Neugebauer is an Engagement Manager at Cenfri, where she leads wo [...]
Lezanne Anderson
Engagement Manager
Lezanne is an Engagement Manager at Cenfri, where she focuses on advan [...]
Olivia Rutayisire
Data Governance and Partnership Manager
Olivia joined us in 2022 as a Data Scientist. With prior experience in [...]
Kinyanjui Mungai
Senior Research Associate
Dr Kinyanjui Mungai is an Associate currently working in the Rwanda Ec [...]
Anita Mulipa
Senior Research Analyst
Anita joined Cenfri in 2023 while completing her postgraduate studies. [...]
Sarah Ann Tocknell
Research Analyst
Sarah joined Cenfri as a Research Analyst in 2025, shortly after compl [...]
Belle Fille Murorunkwere
Senior Data Scientist
Dr Belle Fille joined us in November as a Senior Data Scientist. Befor [...]
Ross Holmes
Senior Data Scientist
Ross joined us in October 2022 as a Data Analyst. He has a Masters in [...]
Rhys Manners
Senior Data Scientist
Dr Rhys Manners is a Senior Data Scientist working on the Rwandan Econ [...]
Jean Bosco Ntwari
Data Scientist
Jean Bosco is a data scientist with an inte [...]
Liebe Burger
Research Associate
Liebe is a Senior Research Analyst in the Financial Integrity team. He [...]
Maja Pekkari
Research Associate
Maja is a Research Analyst at Cenfri and has been part of the team sin [...]
Kyle de Klerk
Research Associate
Kyle is a trade policy resear [...]
Simphiwe Sigauke
Senior Research Analyst
Simphiwe is an admitted attorney. After pur [...]
Kgotso Mofulatsi
Senior Research Analyst
Kgotso first joined Cenfri as the 2021 bursary recipient before servin [...]
Georgina Walsh
Research Analyst
Georgie joined Cenfri as a Research Analyst with a keen interest in th [...]
Kirsten Ellis
Data Analyst
Kirsten joined Cenfri as a Data Ana [...]
Theogene Harerimana
Data Analyst
Theogene is a data analyst with over three years of experience in data [...]
Joshua Cedras
Research Analyst
Joshua joined the Cenfri team in 20 [...]
Tara Osborne
Communications Generalist
As a Communications Generalist, Tara brings a research-driven approach [...]
Léana Floride Bisa Ntete
Communications Generalist
Léana is a Communications Generalist in the Strategy, Growth and Impa [...]
Sanelisiwe Ntuku
Research Analyst
Sanelisiwe is an admitted attorney w [...]
Cleria Dushime
Programme Support Specialist
Cleria's career at Cenfri began as an office administrator in our Rwan [...]
Tessa Kock
Operational Support Manager
Tessa has been part of the Cenfri team since 2009, fulfilling many dif [...]
Megan Gorridon
Human Resource Manager
Megan has been part of the Cenfri team since June 2019, as the Human R [...]
Linda Stanford
Finance Manager
As Finance Manager, Linda supports Cenfri in monitoring and achieving [...]
Siphosethu Patonisi
Senior Assistant Accountant
Siphosethu is deploying the experience she [...]
Lungiswa Kali
Financial and Data Administrator
Lungiswa brings a strong foundation in b [...]
Celine Daniels
HR Assistant
Celine joined Cenfri as an HR Assistant in 2025. She holds a BA Honour [...]
Nesha Koopman
Project Office Administrator
Nesha joined Cenfri in 2025 as the P [...]
Olivia Williams
Senior Programme Coordinator
Olivia joined Cenfri in 2022 as part of the [...]
Helene Kabarere
Office Administrator, Cenfri Rwanda
Helene has more than 10 years’ experience in administration and fina [...]
Linet Claassen
Personal Assistant & Program Administrator
Before joining Cenfri in 2013, Linet worked in public relations for se [...]
Amanda Schoeman
Personal Assistant
Amanda joined Cenfri in February 2016. She originally worked on the in [...]
Thirza Stevens
Executive Personal Assistant
Thirza joined Cenfri in August 2018 as the personal assistant to the m [...]
Nigel Bowman
Associate
Nigel is a highly experienced actuary and insurance professional. Prio [...]
Iske van den Berg
Associate
Iske is a qualitative research specialist with 25 years’ experienc [...]
John Symington
Associate
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
Associate
Anja Smith joined Cenfri in 2008 as one of its founding staff members. [...]
Sabelo Zwane
Associate
Sabelo is a seasoned regulatory expert with [...]
Rochelle Jacobs
Associate
Rochelle has spent the past three years working as a behavioural pract [...]
Doubell Chamberlain
Founder and Managing Director
Doubell is the founder and managing director of Cenfri. He has extensi [...]
Mia Thom
Director of Insights
Mia has extensive experience in how to regulate for innovation and inn [...]
Raimund Snyders
Chair of Cenfri’s Board
Raimund is Chair of Cenfri’s Board. He is a Partner at Leapfrog Inve [...]
Louise Shaxson
Board member
Louise initially trained as an agricultural economist before embarking [...]
Olayinka David-West
Board member
Olayinka David-West is a Professor of Information Systems. She has ove [...]
Bitange Ndemo
Board member
Bitange Ndemo is the immediate former Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bel [...]
Gavin Starks
Board member
Gavin helps solve complex, multidisciplinary, collective-action challe [...]
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  [...]
Anja Smith
Associate
Anja Smith joined Cenfri in 2008 as one of its founding staff members. [...]
Hennie Bester
Programme Director
Hennie is an experienced public policy strategist working towards an i [...]
Shungu Chirunda
Shungu is a former Chair of Cenfri’s Board and former Chair of the B [...]
Meshach Aziakpono
Meshach is a non-executive board member of Cenfri and a professor of [...]
Sharron McPherson
Sharron is a non-executive board member of Cenfri and former Wall Stre [...]
Lesiba Mothata
Lesiba, ACMA CGMA, is the Head: Strategic Clients at Alexforbes Group [...]
Herman Singh
Herman is an innovative business thinker and a high impact player who [...]
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 [...]
Professor Vivienne Lawack
Professor Vivienne Lawack is the Deputy Vic [...]