Patrick Obonyo
Zaandam
Summary
Senior Social investment expert with 17+ years’ experience in designing and implementing grants and impact investment strategy. Adept at managing and advising senior leaders and boards to bridge systemic financing gaps in education, climate change and entrepreneurship across Africa, Asia and Europe. Experience in advising multiple stakeholders, including senior management, boards and partners such as UNDP, UNICEF, GEAPP, Climate KIC on grants, investments strategies and implementation. Skilled in managing large investment portfolios of over €100M, assessing grants and impact investment aligned proposals and report in areas such as Renewable energy, green entrepreneurship, sustainable livelihood and education. Knowledgeable in impact optimizing in Philanthropy including assessing, evaluating and monitoring grant and social investments. Team leader and manager of high impact multi-million donor partnerships (inc 400M GEAPP). Skilled in financial and organization risk analysis, compliance and mitigation.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Programme Manager
IKEA Foundation
01.2017 - Current
- Managed the IKEA Foundation’s portfolio of grant and impact aligned investments on green entrepreneurship and renewable energy across Asia and Africa.
- Develop and implement strategic plan for green entrepreneurship and impact Investment.
- Co-lead a team of 10 that developed India grant making and impact investment strategy.
- Mentor colleagues to assess, process and monitor grants in India.
- Co-design IKEA Foundation impact investment policy and thesis.
- Assess, review and recommend grant investment to senior management and board.
- Create grant making process to assess, grant and evaluate €20 million worth of grants for the green entrepreneurship initiative.
- Manage a portfolio of over €100 million of grant and impact aligned investments and partners.
- Manage $ 400 M complex multi-donor, multi stakeholder renewable energy alliance.
- Represent IKEA Foundation at major international fora’s.
- Analyse, evaluate and approve partner annual financial and narrative report.
Global Programme Manager
IKEA Foundation
01.2014 - 01.2017
- Developed and implemented education grant making strategy.
- Advised senior management, boards and partners on grant application, approvals and impact.
- Led grant monitoring, learning and evaluation.
- Advised partners such as UNICEF, Save the Children, War Child, UNHCR and UNDP on grant applications.
- Managed IKEA’s €30M CSR campaign ‘Play for Change’ to advance children’s rights programmes in Asia and Africa.
- Assessed, evaluated investment and organizational risk compliance.
- Developed, maintained and grew partnerships with international and national non-profits and social enterprises.
Grant Manager
Porticus Amsterdam C.V
Amsterdam
01.2008 - 01.2014
- Advised Philanthropic boards on sustainable social investments and grants.
- Managed a portfolio of 120 projects and organizations working on education, maternal and child health, social justice and social entrepreneurship.
- Monitored project implementation, evaluation and reporting.
- Advisory non-profits on strategy organizational development and project development, implementation, reporting and impact assessment.
- Co-develop Porticus Africa and education strategy.
- Led, mentored and developed a team of three staff.
Co-founder and Executive Secretary
The Catholic Scholarship Programme for East Africa
Nairobi
01.2005 - 01.2008
- Developed and implemented a foundation XXXX. Managing 50B usd portfolio of XXX.
- Co-created the programme concept and unique value proportion.
- Set up regional and country offices in East Africa.
- Manage partnerships with various stakeholders, fundraising and recruitment of scholars.
- Designed leadership and management training curriculum.
- Developed processes and procedures for scholarship application, processing and monitoring and reporting.
- Designed and implemented impact monitoring and evaluation.
- Organized board agenda, meetings and minutes.
Education
Executive MBA -
ERASMUS UNIVERSITY –RSM
01-2012
Msc - Mathematics
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN AFRICA
Nairobi01-2008
Bsc - Mathematics and Statistics
MOI UNIVERSITY
Eldoret01-2004
Skills
- Leadership
- Grant Management
- Grant Process & Operations design
- Financial and budget analysis
- Strategy Planning and execution
- Grants and Investment Advisory
- Risk Assessment and compliance
- Impact Assessment and Monitoring
- Interpersonal Relations
- Communication Skills
- team leadership
- cross-functional coordination
- international representation
- mentoring colleagues
- financial analysis
- partnership development
- strategic planning
- grant management
- Exceptional communication skills
- Risk, issue and dependency management
Languages
English
Kiswahili
Dutch
Publications
- Green Entrepreneurs - The Sleeping Giant of Green Economy, Published, nextbillion
- Estimating Population Mean Using Smoothing Techniques, Unpublished, Master’s thesis
- Strategic Impact Optimization in Philanthropic Organization, Unpublished, Master’s thesis
- Diversity, Internal corporate blog
- Innovative Finance, Internal corporate blog
Hobbies and Interests
- Cycling
- Travelling
- Singing
- Dancing
Custom Section
- Chairperson, DCED Circular Economy Working Group, 2024-01-01, present
- Founding Member, Growth Firms Alliance, 2024-01-01, present
- Finance and Investment Committee Member, GEAPP, 2024-01-01, present
- Board Member, Family for Every Child, 2019-01-01, 2025-01-01
Timeline
Programme Manager
IKEA Foundation
01.2017 - Current
Global Programme Manager
IKEA Foundation
01.2014 - 01.2017
Grant Manager
Porticus Amsterdam C.V
01.2008 - 01.2014
Co-founder and Executive Secretary
The Catholic Scholarship Programme for East Africa
01.2005 - 01.2008
Executive MBA -
ERASMUS UNIVERSITY –RSM
Msc - Mathematics
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN AFRICA
Bsc - Mathematics and Statistics
MOI UNIVERSITY