Diana is an MBA student at Columbia University and Founder & CEO of Gwara. Gwara seeks to transform access to cross-border finance for millions of borrowers in frontier markets locked out of traditional systems, beginning with educational finance. Prior to business school, Diana worked as a data scientist at Barclays’ consumer banking division before transitioning into impact investing across frontier and post-conflict markets across Africa, most recently at CrossBoundary. Diana received a BSc. In Actuarial Science from North West University in South Africa.