LYNN HOHENFELD

Lynn currently works across two large clients and supports internal operations including optimising due diligence processes, issue area and sector research, and communications. She manages a grant portfolio focused on supporting young people with care experience in Europe and supports the client's operating charity in Ethiopia. She also supports the management of Greenwood Place's largest client working across portfolios focusing on poverty and inequality in the UK and internationally as well as issues related to environmental protection.

Lynn joined Greenwood Place in 2019 after graduating from the University of Edinburgh with a MSc in Africa and International Development where she focused on Africa’s history with foreign aid and the inherent power dynamics in the development sector. She is passionate about impactful giving and best practice in the philanthropy sector. 

She holds a bachelors degree in Africa Studies from the Humboldt University of Berlin and has worked and volunteered in education, rural development and cultural projects throughout Africa and Asia including Ghana, Tanzania Uganda and Taiwan.