Elisabeth is an innovation and gender expert with 20 years of experience in international development and the humanitarian sector. She is currently conducting a business Ph.d. focusing on valuations of start-ups aiming for social or environmental impact, and she is particularly exploring values and the definition and distribution of values in the collaboration between innovative start-ups and impact investors in Tanzania.

Elisabeth has 20 years of experience in innovative and inclusive private sector development. She has also conducted several organisation reviews. In the last few years, she has in particular worked with supporting, analyzing and evaluating entrepreneurship, SME growth and innovation efforts towards women in the Global South for clients such as UN Women and the World Bank, and international NGOs such as Womenkind Worldwide and SAIH. Previously, she also led a framework agreement with SIDA in supporting Sweden’s Feministic Foreign Policy.  She has extensive field experience from Africa and Asia, including long term stays in Tanzania and South Africa. She speaks Swahili, French, English and Norwegian.

Elisabeh is a social anthropologist and a specialist in qualitative methods and the ethnographic fieldwork. She is an innovator by heart and a serial entrepreneur, having set up businesses in Norway and Africa. Her main asset is her qualitative methodological skills and cultural sensitivity in approaching the designing, implementing and reviewing of mechanisms, programs and processes aiming for social impact.