Belinda Baah currently works as an Insights Manager in the Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation (M4H) team at the GSMA, the global trade association for the mobile industry, where she focuses on producing high quality evidence to support the delivery and impact of digital humanitarian assistance. As an Insights Manager, Belinda’s main focus is on leveraging her knowledge of mobile money to gather insights from key stakeholders across the humanitarian sector on best practices and raise awareness of the applicability and effectiveness of using mobile money for cash transfers in the humanitarian context

Alongside doing her day job, Belinda has been elected a co-chair of the GSMA’s Diversity and Inclusion group, OneGSMA and is also a co-chair of the the Intersectional Feminist Network (IFN), working tirelessly to help her work colleagues understand the importance of adopting an intersectional lens both in and outside of work. Belinda has also taken the lead on opening discussions on how the GSMA can actively work towards becoming an anti-racist organisation and is part of the committee tasked with turning anti-racism discourse into tangible action points.

Belinda has a wide range of work experience including working as a Senior Economist at the Bank of Uganda where she built expertise in mobile money and financial inclusion; an Economist at an Engineering company specialising on renewable energy projects; a Health Economist at a consultancy focused on helping the public sector improve health outcomes and make wiser investment choices in a world of constantly tightening budgets and as a freelance consultant for a social impact organisation committed to inspiring social change in a sustainable manner, as well as a number of volunteering roles. Belinda has an undergraduate degree in Economics and Spanish and an MSc in Development Economics and Policy, both completed at the University of Manchester.