Grant Gordon
CEO & Co-Founder at Essential
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolGrant Gordon is a mission-driven founder and strategy leader with 3 years as CEO & Co-Founder of Essential, building bioscience-driven solutions to tackle malnutrition and transform food systems from Nairobi. He brings over a decade of policy, evaluation, and innovation experience across the UN and major humanitarian organizations, including leading innovation strategy and fundraising at the International Rescue Committee where he helped secure and manage multi‑million dollar portfolios. Trained in political economy and causal inference (PhD work at Columbia) with an MPP from Harvard, he combines rigorous evidence-based analysis with practical venture-building skills. Grant’s background in large-scale monitoring & evaluation and sector-level policy reform gives him a rare blend of technical, operational, and cross-stakeholder convening strengths useful for scaling impact in fragile and low-resource contexts.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MPP, MPP at Harvard Kennedy SchoolPhD Political Science (Political Economy Applied Statistics Causal Inference), PhD Political Science (Political Economy Applied Statistics Causal Inference) at Columbia UniversityAB in Public Policy & African Studies, AB in Public Policy & African Studies at University of Chicago
English, French, Swahili
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
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energy-efficiency9
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smart-contracts6
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barchart6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
FrogMode/graceful
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:33 pushes in 1 day
FrogMode/jokerace
Aug 2023 - Aug 2023
🃏 jokerace smart contracts and an app for using them
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 9 days
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