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Orlanda has been based in India since 1998 where she came with DFID’s private sector development programme to work on microfinance, small enterprise support and corporate social responsibility. 

After undertaking research and consultancy in microfinance, she pursued a PhD (University of Oxford, 2008), studying ethics in the workplace in a north Indian city exporting metal homeware to stores in Europe and America.  Before joining DFID in 1996, she worked for two livelihood-focused NGOs in London and Sri Lanka. She has a degree in anthropology (Manchester) and a Masters in development studies (SOAS).  She has worked with Impactt since July 2007.