Rachel Sibande serves as the Senior Director for Country Outreach at the Digital Impact Alliance. She is a Digital Development Specialist. Rachel established Malawi's first technology and innovation hub; mHub, which incubates and accelerates emerging innovative entrepreneurs. Rachel has led deployment of big data for development demonstration models in Africa and has extensive experience managing technology-led development projects in digital financial services, public health, agriculture, disaster management and elections monitoring in more than 14 countries. Rachel became a Google Scholar in 2015, being a recipient of Google's Anita Borg Award. Rachel has been listed twice by Forbes as one of Africa's 30 under 30 entrepreneurs in 2016 and as a new wealth creator in 2019. Ms. Sibande has just completed a PhD in computer Science at Rhodes University in South Africa.