Kippy Joseph

Kippy Joseph brings 25 years of professional experience in community and global development and philanthropy. She has a keen understanding of innovation as a catalyst for sustainable change, and a demonstrated commitment to gender equity, especially driving positive outcomes for women and girls. Kippy is a Senior Fellow at Results for Development Institute and serves as a capacity development expert for the International Development Innovation Alliance (IDIA).

Kippy also serves as an advisor to social investment funds and innovation platforms, including the Global Innovation Fund and the network of Global Grand Challenges through Canada (GCC). Kippy’s career includes program stewardship at The Rockefeller Foundation, where she initiated a global fellowship program on innovation and a social finance strategy to pilot social and development impact bonds with government agencies, NGOs, and private capital partners.

Kippy is a skilled facilitator of group dynamics, designing and leading meetings, convenings, courses, and trainings for groups large and small. She has a master’s degree in organizational psychology from Teachers College at Columbia University, a graduate diploma in systems theory from Birbeck College at the University of London, and a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Brown University. She hails from Baltimore and lives in Brooklyn with her family; she dedicates volunteer board-level service to organizations in both cities, including the Baltimore School for the Arts and the Brooklyn Public Library.