NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Nupur Parikh is program director for the Coalition for Smallholder Sourcing at TechnoServe, based in South Africa. Parikh previously led TechnoServe’s Coffee Initiative in Rwanda, which assisted over 30,000 Rwandan smallholder coffee farmers to earn better export and farm-gate prices by improving coffee quality, and to raise yields. Parikh started her professional career in the international tax practice at Ernst & Young in the USA. Parikh holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Smith College and a master’s degree in International Development from Harvard University.