As Vice-President, Social Impact at LIFT, Alexandra Snelgrove leads the social impact team that supports the capacity building and scaling of social purpose organizations in LIFT’s portfolio to affect meaningful and measurable impact.

Alex brings extensive coaching and capacity building experience working with organizations to strengthen their strategic planning, thinking, and discipline. She has helped a variety of non-profits and charities in Canada and the US scale and grow their impact and worked with organizations on a variety of social issues. Prior to joining LIFT, Alexandra worked with Aperio, a social sector consulting firm. She worked with a diverse group of clients to creatively address their critical challenges, including support in the areas of strategic planning, organization and governance review, social enterprise and earned income, partnership strategy, program design and evaluation. Alexandra previously worked at MEDA, an international development organization focused on business solutions to poverty. With a focus on Africa and Asia, she conceived, developed, and implemented a number of initiatives that helped connect low income entrepreneurs to growing markets. She also developed a range of capacity building tools to support a more market-oriented approach in the international development sector. Alexandra started her career in financial services and later worked in trade promotion in Malaysia at the Canadian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur and as Executive Director of the Malaysia Canada Business Council.

Alexandra holds a Bachelor of Arts from Huron College, University of Western Ontario and obtained a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University in New York City.