Hugh Kweku Fraser is a graduate and professionally-qualified banker. He has over 30 years financial sector and consulting experience in East, West and Southern Africa, specialising in Access to Finance and project management. He has managed a number of donor-funded projects for development partners, including EU, IFAD, UNDP, DFID, SIDA, USAID, AfDB and DANIDA. He has held senior consulting and project management positions at both Ernst & Young and KPMG. Hugh was among the pioneers in MSME finance and capacity building of Kenyan Banks and MFIs and was instrumental in the setting up/strengthening of MSME finance units at Barclays bank Kenya, the Co-operative bank of Kenya and Kenya Commercial bank. He designed and managed the first MSME Guarantee Fund in Tanzania and Sierra Leone and has designed access to finance schemes for projects of non-financial NGOs such as CARE (Kenya and Somalia) and WWF (Tanzania). He has contributed to various journals and magazines such as, Intellcap’s Microfinance Insights 1 and Ernst & Young’s global annual Donor Dynamics publications on financial sector related issues. He also has considerable public sector consulting experience covering organisation restructuring, human capital consulting and public sector programme evaluations. Since his return to Sierra Leone from East Africa where he worked for 20 years, he has held independent non-executive directorship at, first, Ecobank SL and currently Union Bank of Africa (UBA) SL. He is also co-chair of the Bank of Sierra Leone’s Access to finance working group. He served Dalan as team lead for a 2019 ‘Market Study on Movable Asset-Based Financing to Small and Medium Enterprises in Sierra Leone’