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Selassie Tay is a young professional with over ten years work experience in the micro finance and non-profit sector mainly in management and leadership roles.
Growing up in a community that offered very little life opportunity to youth and women, Selassie started and currently runs Tongu Youth Agenda for Development, a non-governmental organization that get youths and women started in life using education, entrepreneurship and microfinance. The organization has mentored over 1,500 high school seniors, trained and resourced 20 young women to start microenterprises and secured scholarship for 3 girls to university and senior high school. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance, and is currently enrolled in the Certified Expert in Microfinance course at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. He consults on the Adansonia Project, a Bocconi University research project that seeks to provide business training, peer-to-peer mentoring and access to funds for young African entrepreneurs. Prior to this, he was with iDE Ghana on a sanitation project. Selassie is a fellow of the Emerging African Leader’s Program by University of Cape Town; of YALI and Mandela Institute of Development Studies and a finalist of Community Solutions Program by IREX. He’s married and lives in Ghana with his Kenyan wife. He has love for finance, a passion for social enterprise and enjoys watching news and cartoons. His life objective is to impact his world and leave it a better place than he found it.
