Charlotte Ward, Managing Director, Risk Capital, Global Innovation Fund
Charlotte Ward has over a decades’ experience in venture capital and corporate venture philanthropy in emerging markets, following an early career in prime brokerage and corporate venture capital in Europe and Asia Pacific. Before recently moving back to London, Ward spent 16 years in Nairobi working in development and investment (grant and risk capital) in early stage businesses. She was a Senior Partner and Chief Operating Officer at AHL Venture Partners, the manager of impact investment for the Lundin family office and the AHL Growth Fund. Ward has developed and led public private partnerships for the Lundin Foundation to deliver access to finance, business development and technical assistance to small and medium-sized enterprises in Kenya, Botswana, Ethiopia, Sweden and Norway.