Full Name
Ms Dorothy Maseke
Job Title
Africa Lead
Organisation
FSDAI
Speaker Bio
Dorothy’s passion is to create a positive impact in people’s lives. She likes to promote collective endeavours that bring people together – locally and globally. A futurist, sustainability and nature enthusiast, certified coach, wife and mother of three, Dorothy aims to make a positive contribution to development in Africa.
Dorothy is currently leading FSD Africa’s Natural Capital, Biodiversity Finance & TNFD agenda. This programme aims to catalyse nature-positive finance across Africa through a variety of ways including supporting African countries to develop 30by30 National Nature Strategies aligned with the Global Biodiversity Framework, undertaking nature-related stress testing for selected African Central Banks, supporting financial institutions across target geographies in implementing TNFD-related activities (including piloting the TNFD framework), among others. Dorothy is also driving the growth of the African Natural Capital Alliance (ANCA), a collaborative forum for mobilizing the financial community’s response to the risk of nature loss in Africa. ANCA, established with the support from the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the United Kingdom’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), brings together leading financial institutions, governmental organizations, intergovernmental partners, and civil society representatives with the aim of integrating nature into financial decision making.
Dorothy has previously been the project lead for the implementation of the UNEP FI’s Principles of Sustainable Insurance (PSI) at ICEA LION Group where she was heading the Risk and Compliance department. She has represented Africa in a number of Taskforces such as the Task Force for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) insurer pilot group and the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF). Together with the UNEP PSI, she was instrumental in the co-creation and launch of the Nairobi Declaration on Sustainable Insurance - a statement of commitment by African insurance industry leaders to support the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals launched in April 2021.
A multiple awardee, Dorothy was named one of the Top40Under40 Women in Kenya as well as one of the Top 50 Women in Insurance in Africa at the African Insurance Organisation (AIO) conference in 2022.
Dorothy is currently a board member of the Institute of Risk Management (IRM UK) Global Board where she chairs the Investment Committee.
In her free time, Dorothy enjoys planning weddings and events. She also runs a cooking club.
Dorothy is currently leading FSD Africa’s Natural Capital, Biodiversity Finance & TNFD agenda. This programme aims to catalyse nature-positive finance across Africa through a variety of ways including supporting African countries to develop 30by30 National Nature Strategies aligned with the Global Biodiversity Framework, undertaking nature-related stress testing for selected African Central Banks, supporting financial institutions across target geographies in implementing TNFD-related activities (including piloting the TNFD framework), among others. Dorothy is also driving the growth of the African Natural Capital Alliance (ANCA), a collaborative forum for mobilizing the financial community’s response to the risk of nature loss in Africa. ANCA, established with the support from the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the United Kingdom’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), brings together leading financial institutions, governmental organizations, intergovernmental partners, and civil society representatives with the aim of integrating nature into financial decision making.
Dorothy has previously been the project lead for the implementation of the UNEP FI’s Principles of Sustainable Insurance (PSI) at ICEA LION Group where she was heading the Risk and Compliance department. She has represented Africa in a number of Taskforces such as the Task Force for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) insurer pilot group and the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF). Together with the UNEP PSI, she was instrumental in the co-creation and launch of the Nairobi Declaration on Sustainable Insurance - a statement of commitment by African insurance industry leaders to support the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals launched in April 2021.
A multiple awardee, Dorothy was named one of the Top40Under40 Women in Kenya as well as one of the Top 50 Women in Insurance in Africa at the African Insurance Organisation (AIO) conference in 2022.
Dorothy is currently a board member of the Institute of Risk Management (IRM UK) Global Board where she chairs the Investment Committee.
In her free time, Dorothy enjoys planning weddings and events. She also runs a cooking club.
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