About

Jennifer King is MEDA’s Technical Director of Market Systems. As an economic development professional with strong technical and programmatic expertise in market systems and private sector development, women’s economic empowerment, and gender lens investment in Canada and around the world, Jennifer provides valuable expertise in inclusive market system development to MEDA’s leadership team.

Before becoming a Technical Director, Jennifer focused on women's economic empowerment, agricultural market systems, and gender-inclusive private sector development at MEDA. During this time Jennifer was a Senior Project Manager of a six-year project in Myanmar, and consulted internally and externally on projects in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Nicaragua, and Indonesia.

Prior to MEDA, Jennifer was the founding Executive Director of Social Venture Partners (SVP) in Waterloo Region and helped establish Capacity Waterloo Region (now Capacity Canada). Jennifer's background also includes work in regional economic development and ecosystem development, and work in Sri Lanka strengthening the organizational capacity of the Rural Enterprise Network, a Practical Action social enterprise facilitating training and market linkages to micro-scale rural producers, most of whom are women, as well as those affected by the tsunami.