Holly Lard Krueger is a globally recognised Gender Equality, Disability and Social (GEDSI) and Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE) thought leader and a Managing Partner at the Canopy Lab. She brings 18+ years’ experience placing gender equality at the forefront of development programming, focusing on agriculture, businesses enabling environment reform, financial inclusion, trade and investment. Holly has extensive experience advising, implementing and evaluating GEDSI and MSD/PSD programmes and is currently the Lead Trade and GEDSI advisor for Katalis, a DFAT funded bilateral trade and investment programme. She is a proven strategic leader having managed large programmes, studies and evaluations with diverse teams for bilateral (DFAT, FCDO, USAID, SDC, Sida) and multilateral donors and foundations (IFC, Gate Foundation, World Bank). Holly has a MA from John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and has work experience in over 15+ African, Asian and Middle Eastern countries. She is currently based in Egypt.