Nick Whalley is a Partner at Dalberg Advisors, Co-lead of the Finance and Investment practice, and Director of the firm’s London Office.  He has 15+ years of experience providing advisory support to Foundations, NGOs, multilateral development banks, development finance institutions, impact investors, institutional investors, governments, and corporate clients around the world. 

Nick’s work covers a wide range of functional areas, including strategy, finance, and organizational transformation. While he has worked across many sectors, much of his work has focused on financial inclusion; digital, data, and AI; digital public infrastructure; and trade and economic development. Recent projects include advising the Gates Foundation on leveraging AI for financial services strategy and authoring a widely read public report on the economics of digital agri-lending. For AfricaNenda, an Africa-led payments organization, he helped develop a national Instant Payments System inclusivity index. He also worked with a UN body to rethink its strategy for the world’s leading AI for Good summit and advised a publicly listed MFI on enhancing its sustainability strategy. His work has included providing strategic advice to two European DFIs seeking to enhance their pre-investment “market shaping” offerings, developing an export strategy for an East African country, and evaluating ITFC’s trade finance program. He has conducted commercial due diligences for several impact-focused PE firms, helped the African Development Bank prepare for its recent Feed Africa Summit in Dakar, and partnered with the UK Impact Investing Institute to identify promising case studies in impact investing in the Global South.

Prior to Dalberg, Nick worked at LEK Consulting, where he provided strategic and transaction advisory support to Fortune 500 companies and PE firms across a number of sectors, including industrials, digital financial services, medical devices, and consumer goods.  Nick also served as an investment advisor to institutional investors and family offices at Cambridge Associates, an investment consulting firm, and worked directly in both microfinance and social impact bonds with Kiva (a peer-to-peer lending platform) and Social Finance (and SIB origination organization), respectively. 

Nick has extensive experience working across North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, having completed projects in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, the Philippines, Bangladesh, the US, and the UK, among others. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BA in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Wesleyan University.