FSD Africa
Vimal Parmar, CFA, MBA, currently holds the position of Assistant Director/Senior Capital Markets Specialist (Africa) at Financial Sector Deepening Africa (FSD Africa). Prior to this role, Vimal worked as an Independent Consultant in the East Africa market lead specializing in banking. Vimal has also held executive positions at various financial institutions such as I&M Burbidge Capital Limited and Kestrel Capital (East Africa) Limited. With a strong background in finance, Vimal has also worked as a part-time lecturer at Strathmore University. Vimal's educational background includes degrees in Finance for Nature, Climate and Sustainable Energy Finance, Health Economics and Policy, and Islamic Finance, among others.
FSD Africa
FSD Africa is a specialist development agency funded by the UK’s Department for International Development working to make finance work for Africa’s future. FSD Africa sees itself as a catalyst for change, working with partners to build financial markets that are robust, efficient and, above all, inclusive. It uses funding, research and technical expertise to identify market failures and strengthen the capacity of its partners to improve access to financial services and drive economic growth. FSD Africa is also a regional platform. It fosters collaboration, best practice transfer, economies of scale and coherence between development agencies, donors, financial institutions, practitioners and government entities with a role in financial market development in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, FSD Africa provides strategic and operational support to the FSD Network. FSD Africa believes strong and responsive financial markets will be central to Africa’s emerging growth story and the prosperity of its people.