Our Team

He is also a member of the International advisory group of Public Finance by Women, a nonprofit foundation working to promote true gender equality and equal career opportunities for women working in public finance and a founding board member of People Powered, a global hub for participatory democracy.

In addition to leading IPFK, James is part of its technical team, where he works to support communities to engage meaningfully with elected officials and civil servants on public expenditure and equity. An accountant by training and currently pursuing his Masters Education in Public Finance, he is the lead consultant for Kenya on the Open Budget Survey (OBS), the world’s only independent, comparable measure of budget transparency, participation, and oversight.

As an Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity, he is part of a global cohort of social- change leaders, policy-makers and researchers housed at the International Inequalities Institute in the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK.

He has fast-paced 5 years working experience in county and national level public finance management systems; in capacity strengthening and training for community groups, civil society organizations, members of county assemblies and county executives in various counties in the country.

With over four years’ experience in Financial Management and Reporting, Management Accounting, Office Administration, Cash-flow and Investment Management, Sandra supervises the daily operations at IPFK and spearheads the migration and implementation of the ERP system that is currently being used at the Institute.

When she is not playing with numbers, you may find her in another corner of the world excitedly fulfilling her passion for travel.

He leads the preparation of IPFK’s flagship analytic products, such as the annual Shadow Budget and the annual Macro-Fiscal Analytic Briefs. He has deep understanding and professional experience in designing and administering data instruments as well as using both quantitative and qualitative data analysis packages such as R, STATA, SPSS and NVivo to classify, summarize, organize, analyze, visualize, present, interpret and manage data.

Nyangi holds a Master of Arts degree in Public Policy and Administration and a Bachelor of Economics and Finance from Kenyatta University. He is currently pursuing a second master’s degree in Health Economics and Policy at the University of Nairobi and Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management at Kenyatta University

Her work revolves around gender analysis of county and national level budget documents and its related policies. She has also trained government and non- government officials on gender responsive budgeting. She spearheads the analysis of the health budget and has interest in analysis for RMNCAH, immunization financing and overall health financing at the national and county level.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology with Information Technology from Maseno University, Certificate in Capacity Development from Diplo Foundation and a Certificate in Public Finance Management from International Monetary Fund. In addition, she is a YALI RLCEA fellow.

He can effectively manage operations, lead personnel, analyze strategic business decisions and risk management. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, a Bachelor of Science in Applied Accounts from Oxford Brooks University and ACCA professional level qualification. In addition, he is currently pursuing his Master of Science in Project Management at the University of Nairobi.

Maryanne has a deeper understanding on social accountability work intended to help citizens hold their leaders more accountable for the promises they make around service delivery, ensure value for their money as well as shape their priorities for future engagements with the Governments.

Currently, she is working with the private sector who are the major contributors of taxes collected by the county governments to ensure those taxes match the services provided to them. She is also working on a project that seeks to enhance awareness by the citizens of the country’s debt accumulation. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce (Marketing) and a Certificate in Public Finance Management (IMF).

Her mantra is, ‘If you do not ask, the answer will always be NO!’

She leads the preparation of the Open Budget Survey and preparation of key products in IPF-Kenya including the Macro Fiscal Analytic Brief, Shadow Budget, Research Briefs on Emergency Financing and Own Source Revenue Mobilization.

She has an in-depth knowledge in Research and Publishing and has published a paper on ''Commercialization of sweet potatoes in Kenya'' in a peer reviewed journal. She has excellent data analytic skills as well as knowledge of analyzing data using Stata and SPSS.

Winnie holds a Bachelor of Economics and Finance from Kenyatta University and a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Nairobi. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in Economics at the University of Nairobi.

Octaviah is a skilled data person with more than 3 years of industry experience in collecting, organizing, interpreting, and disseminating various government statistical figures. An energetic presenter and confident communicator with the ability to circulate information clearly and efficiently for the benefit of end users.

She strives to ensure to continuously improve the unit internal efficiencies through improved data structures, constant data cleanliness and insight, efficient data governance and process. Octavia has been instrumental in providing staff, departmental members, and executive management with reports on specific data findings and their impact on organizational growth and success.

Octaviah holds a bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science from Moi University, a Certificate in Public Financial Management from IMF and is highly skilled in data and statistical tools like Advanced Excel, SQL, and Python.