Eighteenth Street Lounge
1212 18th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
Time: 6:30pm

Details of Event

Join us this for this month’s YAP Networking Event to discuss affordable Housing and Housing Finance in Africa.

Lucy Ringera, Co-Founder, Tofina Rom Builders
Lucy Mwendwa Ringera is a director and co-founder of creating Tofina Rom Builders Ltd , a company that aims at delivering quality houses at affordable cost within the up-market Nairobi suburbs to its members. Prior to this she worked for Total Kenya Ltd for over 18 years gaining valuable experience in Accounting, Finance, Human Resource Management and Business Management, which experience has helped steer TOFINA to great heights.

Lucy is a graduate of Nairobi University Business School and School of Credit Management. She contributed to the establishment of examinations for Credit Management Courses within Kasneb , offering her services as an examiner. She is passionate about entrepreneurship. Within a framework of trust and integrity, she witnesses to the power of pooling resources together to create formidable, profitable and sustainable ventures.

Simon Walley,Housing Finance Program Coordinator – Financial & Private Sector Development, World Bank
Simon Walley joined the World Bank in 2006 – his role has been varied covering a range of countries from Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. In particular he has worked on the development of secondary mortgage markets through the creation of liquidity facilities, mortgage subsidy schemes and covered bond legislation.

Prior to his move to Washington, Simon spent 3 years in Brussels working for the European Mortgage Federation as the Deputy Secretary General. He was responsible for promoting the interest of mortgage lenders at the European level and worked on issues such as the European regulatory framework for mortgages under Basel II. He has also had industry experience with 3 years working as an economist for the Nationwide Building Society in UK where he worked on competitor analysis, strategic planning and market forecasting. This followed on from 4 years spent working as a banking regulator for the Bank of England and later the Financial Services Authority.