Christopher Macdonell

Christopher Macdonell is the Managing Partner at Renew Capital, the pan-African early-growth venture and impact investment firm headquartered in Addis Ababa with portfolio offices in Lagos and Accra, managing the $125M Renew Africa Growth Fund (2020 vintage) and $200M Renew Africa Climate & Fintech Fund II (2024 vintage, with IFC, FMO, USAID INVEST, and Google for Startups Black Founders Fund cornerstones). A Harvard AB Economics cum laude and Haas Berkeley MBA (Social Enterprise & Finance), Macdonell spent 6 years at the IFC on microfinance equity, 6 years at Gray Ghost / Goodwell as East Africa Director, before founding Renew Capital in 2019 as one of the first Ethiopia-originated African GP platforms with a dedicated Nigeria-Ghana dual corridor expansion mandate.