Christina Clark-Lowes has over a decade of experience spanning investment, private sector development, investment promotion, and market systems development. As investment practice lead at Cadmus UK, she provides strategic and technical leadership to economic growth programs, supporting projects from design through implementation and evaluation.
Currently, Christina serves as investment lead for the Invest Salone program in Sierra Leone, where she oversees a portfolio of investment-focused initiatives. She played a key role in structuring Sierra Leone’s first-ever corporate bond, designing an innovative working capital facility, promoting climate finance investments, and leading impact investor outreach across fragile states and least developed countries. She also supports the Africa Resilience Investment Accelerator (ARIA), a platform funded by development finance institutions including British International Investment (BII), FMO – Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank, and Proparco, to mobilzse additional investment in frontier markets in Africa. Christina leads the design and implementation of a flexible facility that provides technical assistance to companies to address key investment constraints.
Previously, as the project director of the MarketConnect project in Zambia, Christina led the project’s strategic and technical direction. She pioneered the use of royalty payments by small and medium-sized enterprises in East Africa, helping them become more competitive and attractive to investors by improving their profitability and linking them to new buyers on different scales.
Between 2016 and 2022, Christina provided technical and strategic support to the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) program in Ethiopia. Her work focused on leveraging increased tenure security to catalyze investments in rural areas. She supported interventions spanning access to finance, crop insurance, the establishment of a transparent rural land rental market, and the development of commercially driven agricultural input markets, while also contributing to policy reforms enabling rural smallholder farmers to use their land as collateral.
