Freyda is an Associate Director and leads our Intelligence and Investigations practice in East Africa, where her multidisciplinary team delivers integrity due diligence, business intelligence, investigations, fraud risk engagements, and political and regulatory risk assessments. She advises multinational corporations, development finance institutions, private equity investors and strategic investors on integrity, governance and reputational risks associated with investments, transactions, partnerships and market entry.
With extensive experience across East Africa and Horn of Africa regions, Freyda has directed complex due diligence and investigative engagements across the region. She frequently leads multi-country assignments in support of transactions, strategic investments, dispute-related matters, and other high-stakes business decisions.
Recent engagements include:
- Leading an assessment of the flow of oil revenues in South Sudan, including allegations of human rights abuses and financing civil conflict in the country, on behalf of an international commodity trading company.
- Overseeing a fraud investigation and media assessment of corruption-related allegations against a senior employee of a global supplies and consumer chemicals manufacturer in Kenya.
- Performing a due diligence investigation into a pan-African retailer, focusing on their modus operandi, market reputation and their entry into the fast foods business in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda.
- Conducting an integrity due diligence investigation into a high-profile hospital project in Uganda, examining the contract award process, allegations of favouritism, mismanagement of funds and ties to the political class in Uganda.
Before joining Control Risks Control Risks, Freyda worked with Extractives Baraza, an online platform for stakeholder engagements in the extractives industry in East Africa, benchmarking the performance of Kenya’s extractives sector against the Extractives Industry Transparency Index (EITI).
Freyda is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from Strathmore University, Kenya.