Liz Wilson

Liz is Deputy CEO at Small Foundation, an innovative family foundation based in Ireland focused on increasing income-generating opportunities for the rural poor in sub-Saharan Africa, managing and developing their expertise and practice around impact networks, systems, impact management, and communications. 

Previously Liz has worked as deputy director and co-founder of Agriculture for Impact & The Montpellier Panel, Imperial College London, providing evidence and analysis to European governments to support their approach to agricultural development, food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa. As a project officer in DFID China, she worked on partnership initiatives to pilot climate change adaptation, low carbon development and sustainable urban development strategies. She also worked for the humanitarian health NGO Merlin in the DRC and the UK, and served as a diplomat in the UK Embassy in China.  Liz is a trustee of the Nigeria-based Visiola Foundation.

Liz received an MA in German and Spanish language and literature at the University of St Andrews, and an MSc in Development Management from the Open University. She was a Robert T Jones Memorial Scholar at Emory University.