Brenda Gunde
Brenda Mulele Gunde is the Global Lead for ICT4D at United Nations-International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD). She is responsible for providing leadership and strategic, technical and policy advisory in adopting and integrating digital technologies to support smallholder farmers for the IFAD programme of work. Her career spans ICT leadership, business engagement and digital transformation to enable rural development. Before joining IFAD, she worked for UNICEF as Chief of ICT in Bangladesh and has an extensive background in the non-governmental sector, working as Director of ICT for SOS Children’s Villages East and Southern Africa and Regional Director of IT for World Vision Southern Africa Region, among other roles. She possesses a Master of Science in Sustainable Development from the University of London-SOAS and a Master of Business Administration in ICT Management from the University of Leicester.