Kingsley is a Kenyan development practitioner who has spent the past 15 years working through how to improve the socio-economic realities of marginalised communities. This has included enterprise development, youth development, public policy, and entrepreneurship, with roles in government, non-profit and private sector. Working on Kenya's Affordable Housing Program, Kingsley facilitated over USD 80m in market access for informal sector micro-entrepreneurs and women artisans through grassroots-focused preferential procurement and artisan up-skilling. At the Presidency,Kingsley worked on MSME policy reforms in market access, regional trade policy and finance, including Kenya's first public guarantee scheme, unlocking USD 100m for MSME lending. As COO at enke, Kingsley grappled with how to sustainably finance programmes to enable young people to be agents of social change in post-apartheid South Africa. He is passionate about grassroots, community-centered policy that provides economic inclusion and agency.

Kingsley is a Mastercard Foundation Scholar under the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx).