Eliot D. Pence

Prior to joining McLarty Associates, Eliot Pence served as a director for the Whitaker Group, where he advised multinational companies on their strategies in over 20 markets throughout sub-Saharan Africa. 

He was recognized by Diplomatic Courier as a Top 99 foreign policy leader and was selected by the Global Public Policy Institute as a Global Governance 2022 Fellow. Pence is also the founder of the software start-up Upstream Analytics and the Africa Expert Network (AXN). He is on the boards of the Africa Leadership Network, Market Atlas, and the Pan-African Network. He holds a master’s in international relations from Yale University and a bachelor’s from the University of Victoria.