Speakers

Tracey Gyateng is Community Data Principal within The Legal Education Foundation. She joined in 2021 and leads on developing data and evaluation support programmes to non-profit organisations providing access to justice services; and improving the availability of data to address access to justice challenges as part of the Justice Lab initiative.

She is a quantitative social researcher and specialises in the access, collection and management of quantitative data to inform decision making. Tracey has a passion for the use of data science and general quantitative techniques to support people in their lives. She was the data science manager at DataKind UK and worked with not for profit organisations to ethically and legally utilise their own and/or open data; and was programme manager for New Philanthropy Capital’s ‘Data Lab’, which brought non profit and UK government departments together to responsibly share data for project evaluation.

Rosario is responsible for leading NPC’s work on data in consultancy and innovation, and for providing thought leadership on innovative ways in which data can improve the sector’s effectiveness. Rosario’s responsibilities include the ongoing development of NPC’s Data Labs and the Interactive Covid-19 data for charities and funders, data analysis and skills implementation, as well as promoting data-driven decision-making throughout the sector.

Rosario has more than 10-years of experience in applied quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and a passion for the creative use of data and impact evaluation frameworks aimed at proving the short, medium and long-term impact of the charity sector.

María Laura Tinelli is the Director and Founder of Acrux Partners, an impact investment intermediary and market developer focused in South America. She founded and heads the Impact Investment National Advisory Board for Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. She is an Investment Committee Member for NXTP Impact Investment Fund in Latin America. Together with Social Finance UK, Acrux and the IADB has structured the first Social Impact Bond for Argentina in 2018, and is currently working on the second one. She currently serves as Impact Investment advisor to the UNPRI.

Dr. Neha Nimble is an intersectional feminist and a social science researcher. She is currently the Research Manager at Ashoka University’s Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy. She has previously worked with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai where she also undertook her PhD. Her areas of interest and expertise include gender, intersectionality, work, human trafficking and social exclusion. She has published a number of academic and op-ed contents.