Kirsten Pfeiffer is a Senior Global Practice Specialist at DAI in Technical Services, Economic Growth Sector. Ms. Pfeiffer is an agriculture market systems development and finance specialist. In her current role, she leads the design of DAI technical approaches and advances thought leadership in private sector engagement and frontier market investment. Ms. Pfeiffer brings field management experience from her previous role as DCOP on the Rwanda Private Sector Driven Agriculture Growth (PSDAG) project, where she led its private sector engagement strategy and mobilized inclusive private sector agriculture investments leveraging a $5 million Value Chain Competitiveness Fund. She has work extensively in Africa including in Rwanda, Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia and Zambia and holds an MA from Johns Hopkins SAIS.