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Brian Milder
CEO
ACELI Africa
Presentation
Brian Milder is the CEO for Aceli Africa, a market-based initiative that will offer financial incentives, informed by new data on the lending economics of private sector actors, to mobilize $700M in lending to inclusive agricultural SMEs in East Africa by 2025. He also serves as the Director of the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance, an alliance of 12 impact lenders that share learning to develop industry standards and best practices for agricultural SME lending globally. Previously as Chief Innovation Officer for Root Capital, he designed impact-linked finance mechanisms to expand lending to first-time borrowers and long-term financing for smallholder farmers to replant tree crops and build climate resilience. Â
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