Founder

Michelle Chivunga

Founder & CEO

About Michelle Chivunga

It is not every day a girl raised in a remote village in Zambia-Africa decides to start her own policy and financing business. Michelle’s journey working within policy and financing has been extensive and at times challenging but also highly rewarding with many years’ experience working in both the private and public sectors. Her impressive experience in influencing, shaping government policy and sourcing innovative solution around financing provides the Global Policy House an excellent base to deliver. Michelle has built up a strong career and professional network working with major organisations including the British Bankers Association,
Department for Communities and Local government, Chartered Institute of Housing and University of Surrey. She has also had various investment and financial
consultancy roles engaging with policy leads and groups including the World Bank, European Banking Federation, the European Commission, African Development
Bank, HM Treasury, Foreign Commonwealth Office, DFID, ODI,UK parliamentarians in various government departments and non-governmental experts in many
organisations.
Michelle has predominantly worked on government policy and designing financing instruments working with parliamentarians, bankers and international organisations to develop policy and support financing/economic development programs. At the British Bankers Association Michelle worked within corporate banking with a focus on UK/EU/global financing and SME business policy. Working with representation for the UK banking sector and supporting many of the major banks including Barclays, HSBC, Santander, Lloyds, RBS and many other smaller challenger banks to support financial stability programs, strengthen policy and support innovative transactions including business financing arrangements for SMEs. Michelle led global stakeholderengagement work, working with other European banking associations to support financial transactions across Africa, Asia, USA and other markets. Globally Michelle has worked with government leads and industry leads to evaluate economic policy frameworks and helped design long-term financing programs.
Previous to this Michelle worked with the professional housing group the Chartered Institute of Housing leading housing policy initiatives in the South East regions and led the international housing development programmes working with stakeholders in Africa, Asia and the USA.Michelle has also written various articles and published a series of reports over the years,some jointly with leading writers including the Housing and Economic Linkages review. Michelle now runs the Global Policy House and also works and supports her local University of Surrey’s technology work within the Centre for Digital Economy and manages the University’s global expansion programme with Executive Education Programmes.

Ketsuda Supradit

Minister (Economic and Finance) UK & Europe, Royal Thai Embassy, London

"Michelle is a finance expert. Her deep knowledge in economic, financial and business policy issues. is impressive. Michelle has excellent ability to multitask, often juggling several important projects at the same time travelling across the world to carry out her work. And with all this she remains a very passionate and hardworking individual able to produce great results and juggle her many commitments. As a professional Michelle often keeps up to date and shares topical policy issues expertly covering key global finance and economic policy developments- particularly relevant for us is her international linkages and ability to connect. I initially met Michelle when she worked as the UK/EU representative and lead on business finance/economic policy at the British Bankers Association. Michelle was and remains an effective communicator and negotiator with an excellent grasp of financing issues affecting businesses and financing institutions. In particular her global perspectives and innovative ideas around financing arrangements makes her a great asset. Some of her insightful policy briefings and reports she has shared has helped stimulate our thinking on a range of issues. I would not hesitate to recommend Michelle and I know in whatever project she engages in she will give only the best and deliver excellent results.

Lloyd Adams

Head of Strategy at Digital Jersey, Jersey

"Michelle is a highly intelligent and considerate colleague, whose efforts greatly contributed to the ongoing success of teams across the British Bankers' Association. Working closely with my team within Retail Banking at the BBA, Michelle’s team played an instrumental role driving forward business finance policy initiatives, working across the UK and the EU on SME policy development and corporate finance projects. In particular we had direct engagement on policy development, parliamentary work and financing projects with the banking industry across the devolved nations and EU markets. Michelle’s strong ability to work with different internal and external teams is particularly impressive; she has clearly been very successful in managing and widening her cross-sector stakeholder network working globally with major groups!

Reka Hamori

Chief Economist, Hungarian Banking Association, Hungary

"Michelle worked at the British Bankers Association, and we used to attend meetings of the European Banking Federation SME Working Group where Michelle represented the BBA on UK/EU banking policy and financing issues. During these meetings, Michelle always contributed actively and proactively, her recommendations and enthusiasm were a great benefit for our entire group. In particular Michelle added value by sharing and updating the group on the banking, economic and financing developments in the UK.I am sure with her policy knowledge and ability to work with senior stakeholders, she will be an active team member and would provide a significant contribution to any company.

Frederic Paulic

Business Finance Advisor-French Banking Federation

"Michelle is very intelligent and well versed on many economic and financial issues affecting businesses and institutions. It was a pleasure to work with Michelle during her time at the British Bankers Association where she strongly represented the banking community and raised profile on many issues affecting businesses across the UK, Europe .Michelle is excellent in negotiating and presenting innovative solutions, clearly explaining complex policy matters and suggesting practical approaches. As someone that is engaged in various sectors, Michelle understands well the complexities that many businesses face in different sectors. Working with other European representatives like myself representing the French financing industry on the European Banking Federations working group , Michelle shared regularly with the group progress being made around financial innovation/ inclusion and developments around alternative sources of finance and long-term financing improvements. Her strengths are many but she particularly excels in engaging with global stakeholders, gathering intelligence and excellent finance and wider-policy insight.