Tomas Lievens is the partner of the Human Development practice. He is an experienced social policy economist with expertise in quantitative research and mixed research methods, health, education and WASH financing, health insurance, and health and education labour markets.

Much of his work is focused on public system and expenditure performance with a special interest in equity in financing and outcomes.

He carried out several expenditure reviews, including tracking surveys; performance, efficiency and costing studies; equity and benefit incidence analyses, often to inform health and education financing strategies. He worked extensively on fiscal questions, domestic resource mobilisation and sustainable financing of sector strategies. He also has a long-term research interest in health-worker motivation and behaviour to improve health labour market outcomes.

Prior to joining Genesis he was director of the Social Policy Programme at Oxford Policy Management where he managed consultants across health, education, social protection and poverty, child protection and social care services, nutrition and water. Previously he was adviser for the International Labour Organisation in Africa, economics adviser to the Belgian minister for international development and consulted with Philippe Naert, Dean of INSEAD Business School.

He holds masters’ degrees in Engineering from the University of Leuven in Belgium and in Economics from the University of Nottingham in the UK.

Naheed Hassan is our engagement manager with North American donors and foundations for the Financial Services Strategy and Evaluation for Development practices. She is based in Toronto.

She is an entrepreneur and professional with start-up, strategic management consulting, and programme and project management experience spanning the private, public and non-profit sectors.

Naheed holds a masters in Public Administration and International Development from Harvard as well as a masters in Business Administration from the Institute of Business Administration.

Richard Ketley is a partner and director at Genesis, working in both the Johannesburg and Dubai offices. He is widely recognised and consulted as a leading expert on banking in Africa, and has worked with banking and financial sector clients throughout Africa and the Middle East.

He has led assignments with banks and financial institutions since he joined Genesis in 2003, working across the full range of specialist areas covered by the firm. He has worked with boards and management committees to address strategic challenges, advised on bank acquisitions and treasury strategy, and developed effective retail value propositions that meet both client and shareholder expectations. He has a particular interest in and focus on mobile payments and money transfers, as well as in solving the challenge of providing banking services to small businesses. He has advised many of the top banks in Africa and lectures widely on topics related to retail banking.

Before joining Genesis, Richard was the Head of Strategy: Africa for Standard Bank, where his responsibility extended to 17 countries and encompassed mergers and acquisitions as well as retail and card strategies. Prior to that, he worked in debt capital markets at Deutsche Bank. He gained in-depth insight into the needs and requirements of the financial sector in South Africa when he was the Chief Director of Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Oversight at the National Treasury. Working at the World Bank, he also played a key role in the development of South Africa's macroeconomic strategy and medium-term planning framework. His many assignments have included acting as an adviser to the Ugandan Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning.

Richard holds an honours degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and master's in Economics from London University, where he specialised in Finance.

Geeta Singh is an experienced litigation consultant. She has worked on a wide variety of cases in the fields of competition economics, compensation disputes and valuation. These cases have derived from several different industries including healthcare, publishing, rubber chemicals, health insurance, construction, media and airline transport.

Prior to working with Genesis, Geeta was based at the New York office of Cornerstone Research where she worked on a number of different cases including antitrust, finance and compensation cases. In the antitrust cases, she advised clients on market definition, the determination of market power, common impact, the determination of competitive effects and damages from conduct at issue.

Prior to her career in the litigation consulting , Geeta was based at the Centre for International Development at Harvard University where she worked on public policy issues for developing countries. She obtained her bachelor's in Economics from Delhi University, master's in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and a PhD in Economics from Stanford University.

Tochukwu Egesi is a digital specialist in the Financial Services Strategy practice.

Prior to joining Genesis, he worked at Innovation Corner where he developed interventions in data science and healthcare for low resource areas in Nigeria.

He has a bachelor's in Economics from the Abia State University, Nigeria.

Tascha Terblanche leads the transaction advisory business within our Financial Services and Strategy practice.

Before joining Genesis, Tascha worked as an investment professional at Coronation Fund Managers, one of South Africa's largest asset managers. Her work entailed investing in companies across Africa for Coronation's Africa Frontiers Fund. During this time Tascha looked at opportunities in Nigeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Namibia.

Her project experience at Genesis has included the identification of target investments across select African markets for a large South African insurance company and due diligence on the short list of targets.

Tascha holds a master's in International Economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland and a bachelor’s in Economics from the University of Cape Town.