Elellan Debela is a strategic and results-oriented project manager with 10 years of experience in private sector development, enterprise support, and strategic planning across Africa. She is currently a Project Manager at Entrepreneurial Solutions Partners (ESP), where she oversees business development services for investment vehicles and portfolio companies under the Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund.
Elellan has held pivotal roles at the Mastercard Foundation and the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Institute, where she contributed to national strategy development and led high-impact initiatives in agribusiness acceleration and contract farming. Her expertise spans project design and execution, value chain development, stakeholder engagement, and business diagnostics. She brings a collaborative, impact-driven approach to sustainable development and economic transformation.
She holds a Master’s degree in Regional and Local Development Studies and a Bachelor’s in Economics from Addis Ababa University, and is currently pursuing a Global Online MBA at the University of Warwick.
