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Senior Advisor & Global Practice Lead, Private Sector Engagement Practice Dany Khy
Dany Khy is an accomplished international development leader with over 24 years of experience in private sector engagement, blended finance, impact investing, and innovative public-private partnerships. She established the Private Sector Engagement Practice at Chemonics to serve as a leading innovator and center of excellence in incubating and scaling initiatives that mobilizes the private sector toward sustained development impact. She led the company’s first venture into impact investing and structured its first blended-finance platform. She also spearheads an innovative investment platform with corporate partners that will unlock capital for women fund managers in emerging markets. Prior to Chemonics, Dany led the economic division for Asia at USAID, overseeing the design and management of priority economic programs across Asia. Dany holds a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University.
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The Path to Inclusive Finance with Dany Khy and Raya Papp
Evidence shows that women and diverse fund management teams deliver better financial returns compared to their peers. Chemonics is working with Sagana to bring more money into the hands of women fund managers who are changemakers and leaders in their communities. We sat down with Dany Khy, Senior Director of Chemonics’ Private Sector Engagement team,…
3 Questions with Dany Khy on Chemonics’ New Center for Private Sector Engagement
1. Why is Chemonics creating the Center for Private Sector Engagement? Why now and what are its goals? Although the Center for Private Sector Engagement is new, Chemonics has worked with the private sector for over 40 years from empowering entrepreneurs and spurring the growth of local businesses to partnering with multinationals to deliver critical…
Moving Past the Discussion Table: 3 Methods for Operationalizing Private Sector Partnerships
Recently, Chemonics partnered with the University of Notre Dame (one of the partners in the creation of USAID’s Private Sector Engagement Evidence Gap Map) to conduct an in-depth survey of our development programs. The goal was to better understand how our projects are working with the private sector to achieve development impact — and, more…