Associates

Born in Kenya and, like a number of our team, trained in South Africa, David has always had an eye for justice and migration. Working in Ethiopia, Malawi, Uganda and elsewhere, he is interested in development finance, populations, and infrastructure. Essentially, the ins and outs of how services are realised materially. His commitment to the mechanics of development, from higher bodies both international and domestic all the way down to the people in need of aid on the ground, gives our work a strong footing.

Aditya Sarkar Aditya is our polymath. Not quite comfortable being pigeon-holed as a lawyer, policy ‘wonk’ or a researcher, Aditya’s work and passion traverses disciplinary boundaries, embracing his multiple identities and skills. After ending up as a lawyer—in his own words—almost by accident, Aditya has worked for the Indian government, International Labour Organisation, and World …

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Sumayya Vally Sumayya is our eye. Growing up in an Indian-only apartheid township in South Africa, she has always been interested in cities as places full to brimming with diversity, movement, and change. Her practice began in Johannesburg but she has since set her sights elsewhere—examining how the city, as a form of human settlement, …

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Loren Landau Loren is our sceptic. In our work developing sustainable approaches to urban mobility in the Global South, Frame45 must reflect honestly and critically on past failures and entrenched orthodoxies, not shying away from hard truths. To this, Loren brings his discerning eye and expertise on mobility, multi-scale governance, and socio-political change.  Working to …

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Regina Kihato Regina is our analyst. After completing her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in finance and accounting in South Africa and the United States respectively, she moved toward analytics. Her work has taken her across the corporate US, honed her skills, and broadened her expertise in the number-world.  Data plays a central role in almost …

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Fred Swart Fred is our visionary. As a graphic designer based in Johannesburg, Fred quips that he was born between an airport, powerstation and a dynamite factory. Perhaps it was being edged-in between these stark landscapes that piqued Fred’s interest in form, and the language and meaning shapes convey. With a background in advertising, Fred …

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Hellen Zziwa Hellen is our problem solver. With over twenty years experience in identifying the gap between a stated goal and the outcome, she is a trained strategist and project manager. Hellen’s interest in human behaviour and cognition, piqued during her masters degree in Communications and Signal Processing, turned to questions of migrant justice and …

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Tanya Pampalone Tanya is our sleuth. Based in Berkeley, trained across and between California and Johannesburg and Prague, Tanya is always in search of the (lowercase-t) truth. In a life telling stories about those at the margins for those at the centre, her work revolves around getting people to think differently about the issues they …

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