James is the executive director of global strategy and advisory firm Dalberg Group, a non-executive director of Old Mutual Group and of One Acre Fund, a non-profit organization that supplies smallholder farmers in East Africa with asset-based financing and agriculture training services to reduce hunger and poverty.
Prior to Dalberg, James worked at McKinsey & Company.
James is a 2009 Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellow of the African Leadership Institute and has served on the Institute’s board. He is also a 2013 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and currently serves on the Program Advisory Committee of the Clinton Global Initiative.
