Hannah Wanjie Ryder

Hannah Ryder is the CEO of Development Reimagined, the first wholly owned Kenyan company in Beijing China since 2018. 

DR is an influential African-owned and African-led international development consultancy with headquarters in Beijing and offices in the UK and Kenya. DR was created in response to the complexities of global poverty and sustainable development, which requires new ideas and new solutions. DR and the clients we work with invest in thoughtful insights backed by cutting-edge analytics and deep relationships. 

As a former diplomat and economist with over 20 years of experience and named one of 100 most influential Africans in 2021, Ms Ryder is also inter alia Senior Associate for the Africa Program of the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS), sits on the Board of the Environmental Defence Fund, is a member of UAE's International Advisory Council on the New Economy, and the Special Adviser for the Common Leveraging Union of Borrowers for the Organisation of Southern Cooperation (OSC). 

Prior to her role at DR, Ms Ryder led the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s work with China to help scale up and improve cooperation with low- and middle-income countries, including in Africa. She has also played various advisory roles for the UN and OECD and co-authored the seminal Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change in 2006.