Rose Maruru is the co-founder and chief executive officer of EPIC-Africa, an organization that seeks to increase the impact of philanthropy in Africa by filling in critical data and capacity gaps in the philanthropic market infrastructure. She is a board member of Niyel, an impact-driven campaign, advocacy and public affairs firm. Rose has worked for almost 25 years in the philanthropy and civil society sector, managing strategic partnerships, developing strategies, mobilizing resources and building organizational capacity. Prior to founding EPIC-Africa in 2015, Rose held various management and leadership positions at the Population Council in New York, the Coalition for Children's Rights in Yemen, and Save the Children in the Gambia, Egypt and the US. Rose was also the director of operations at TrustAfrica, where she successfully led the organization's efforts to continuously improve its strategies, processes, and structures and to maintain its high standards of performance, transparency, and accountability. Rose has a bachelor's degree in government and literature from the University of Nairobi in Kenya, a post-graduate diploma in American Studies from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and a master's degree in development management and planning from L'Institut Africain de Développement Economique et de Planification (IDEP) in Dakar.