Social Enterprise Annual Conference

Partner and North American Regional Director
Dalberg, Global Development Advisors

Daniella Ballou-Aares leads Dalberg’s North American offices. She advises leading foundations, international organizations, companies and NGOs on strategies to increase their impact on some of the world’s most pressing global challenges. Daniella has experience across a wide range of sectors, helping organizations to define clear strategies, prioritize resource investments and launch new initiatives. She frequently facilitates Board level strategic planning processes and facilitation of large-scale multi-stakeholder initiatives. Daniella led the creation of Dalberg’s Global Health Practice and has been actively building the firm’s presence in the health and agricultural sector over the past six years. Daniella’s recent engagements include: designing a new financing mechanism which enables African banks to extend credit to smooth donor funding flows; structuring a multi-sector partnership to strengthen an agricultural export market in West Africa and devising a post-disaster development strategy for Haiti. Many of her engagements include linking an organization’s strategic goals to it monitoring and evaluation approach. Her clients have included the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UN Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, World Bank, FAO, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, US Government, UNDP, UNFPA, International Center for Research on Women, Human Rights Watch and Millennium Promise. She also advises companies and investors operating in emerging markets. Before Dalberg, Daniella was a consultant with Bain & Company in the US, UK and South Africa, advising private equity, consumer products and financial services firms. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was a fellow with the International Rescue Committee in Liberia. Daniella holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government and a BS in Operations Research from Cornell University.