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Farah Husain  Klein

Manager, San Francisco

Farah Husain Klein is a manager in Bridgespan’s San Francisco office. Since joining Bridgespan in 2001, she has worked extensively in the areas of education and youth development. Farah's clients have a public-private partnership seeking to improve student achievement in Texas; an after-school youth program for at-risk students in Oregon; a nurse home visitation program planning for national expansion; an Australian program seeking to expand in the US to improve the mental health of young people; and a health systems foundations in California. She has worked with four major foundations in the areas of freshwater and biodiversity conservation, grantmaking strategy and financial sustainability for grantees, and on a case study on national program replication as her contribution to the firm’s knowledge strategy.

Prior to joining Bridgespan, Farah worked as a research consultant for the Aga Khan Rural Support Program in Pakistan. At AKRSP, she was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency to publish a paper on the impact of microfinance institutions on social capital in the rural villages of Northern Pakistan. She has also researched women entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia for the Asia Foundation and assisted the executive director of Global Service Corps in implementing an HIV-AIDS awareness program in East Africa. She began her career as a financial analyst at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Philadelphia.

Farah attended high school in Kenya. She earned her BA in Political Science and International Economics with honors from Bryn Mawr College and her M.Phil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge, England, also with honors.