Mr. Irfan Keshavjee

Mr. Irfan Keshavjee was appointed to the Board in May 2013. He has an MBA from the University of Oxford, UK and a Bachelors’ Degree in Civil-Environmental Engineering from Queen’s University in Canada. He also holds a certificate in Housing Finance from the Wharton Real Estate Centre, University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Irfan Keshavjee has had over 20 years of commercial experience in East Africa as a Director of the White Rose Group of Companies. He is also the Founder of Karibu Homes, an organization dedicated to providing affordable housing to hardworking Kenyans, with over 1,000 homes currently under development in peri-urban Kenya. He was awarded the prestigious Ashoka Fellowship and the Acumen Fund East Africa Fellowship for having co-founded award-winning enterprises that impact on the livelihoods of low-income Kenyans. He is also a member of the Institute of Directors (Kenya).