Melissa Bukuru

2018 - present

Melissa Bukuru is the Principal for Financial Inclusion and Resilience at Ownership Works, a new nonprofit seeking to expand employee ownership of companies and build equitable wealth for all. Previously, she was a Director at Lion’s Head Global Partners, an Investment Bank operating across frontier and emerging markets globally.

Melissa was an Analyst in Global Policy Development at Soros Fund Management where she managed several policy-related projects for the principals of the fund. Melissa has also worked at the Open Society Foundations in New York managing grants for African civil society organizations. She worked at the Council on Foreign Relations, where she researched conflict, technology, and democracy in Africa.

She holds a BA in Global Studies from The New School in New York, where she also studied creative writing. She was born in Burundi and spent her childhood in New York City and Quebec.