Abel Boreto works for a global VC with offices in Lagos, London and Nairobi with more than $200 million in assets under management. He kicked off his professional career in 2011 as a credit research analyst at Bloomberg L.P. in the USA after graduating with an AB degree in Government from Harvard University. Boreto relocated to Kenya in 2014 to launch Sarora Dairies, a milk processing and retail distribution company in Eldoret, Western Kenya. He sold the dairy business in 2018 and joined Tulaa, a Nairobi-based agritech and fintech startup providing smallholder farmers with access to credit and markets.
Before joining the Ministry of Environment, she worked at Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture as the administrative coordinator for academic affairs, extension and applied research. Prior to that, she served as an environmental audit and monitoring officer at Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) for more than seven years and also as the alternate focal point for the Montreal protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer, and the Nagoya Protocol focal point, where she managed different projects aiming at regulating access to the genetic resources. In her capacity as an environmental audit and monitoring officer, she conducted environmental audit activities for different projects under operation and monitored their compliance with environmental regulations.
She is a member of the African Women in science and Engineering. A Rwandan national, Beatrice holds a Master’s in biodiversity conservation from the University of Rwanda.
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