Tombo Banda

Tombo holds a MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of  Cambridge and a MEng in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London. She is a  chartered engineer registered with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers UK. Tombo is  

based in the CrossBoundary Nairobi office, where she leads CrossBoundary’s Mini-Grid  Innovation Lab. The Innovation Lab is supporting the sector transition to the ‘ power grid of  the future’ – a decentralized network balancing millions of nodes of generation, storage and  consumption across utilities, public-private partnerships, and consumers. The Innovation  Lab is supporting the sector to accelerate this transition by trialing new energy access  business ideas that reduce cost or increase consumption, driving commercial viability. Prior  to joining CrossBoundary, she worked as a Consultant in McKinsey & Company’s Addis  Ababa office, where she advised clients in the public and social sector in Ethiopia, Kenya,  Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, and Uganda.

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