Alina is currently advising on CEI Africa expansion and leading the organization of the DGGF 10-Year Event. She is an experienced program manager and SME support and finance expert with an extensive network within African entrepreneurship ecosystem. Alina holds an MBA degree from Amsterdam Business School and has almost two decades of professional experience spanning from corporate world to the development field. Her latest focus has been on designing, managing and implementing multi-country, multi-stakeholder donor-funded programs aimed at fostering entrepreneurship and innovation and closing the financing gap for the ‘missing middle’ in Africa.