Email: frederick.fussi@bairdscmc.com
Some of Fussi’s key successes since elected as the President of TUSSAA on April 6, 2024, include playing a key role to establish and provide strategic leadership and guidance on Alumni Giveback Events (AGE program) on utilization of four American spaces in Tanzania. Through AGE program we have impacted the lives of 855 youth (499 men and 356 women) where more than 40 alumni have played key roles as trainers, speakers, moderators, event organizers, rapporteurs, graphic designers, and social media personnel for the AGE Program.
He has been appointed to serve as the Board Member for the FutureElect East Africa Advisory Council. The East Africa Advisory Council advises on the strategic design and development process for establishing an East Africa Public Leadership Programme and a Women in Public Office Programme based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Fussi also served as the Board Member for YALI East Africa Regional Advisory Board between 2016 and 2017. Frederick Fussi’s who a founder of ChangeLab Consulting has more than ten years of professional expertise and diverse experience ranges working in corporate and civic leadership with a background on Senior Leadership positions in an Audit Firm, Mining, Oil and Gas companies and International Organizations.
He is a YALI Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni (2016) from University of Virginia, and College of William and Mary, U.SA. In 2023 Fussi won the AlumniTIES small grant from the U.S State Department to implement #AmplifyTanzania – a project aimed at promoting inclusion of youth voices into the governance of Tanzania. In 2022, Fussi successful led three other YALI Alumni to win a grant of USD 30,000 from the U.S State Department’s Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF) for the project that adopts the animated video story telling approach to promote ethics and integrity community parenting for children in primary schools attending class four to seven, and out of school children aged ten to fourteen years living in underprivileged communities.
Currently serving as the Senior Program Officer at the International Republican Institute (IRI) he oversees strategic implementation of the $19.6 million USAID Lets Participate Together Project executed through the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) since 2017. Some of his successes included providing program leadership for and supervising sub-grants to CSOs such as TBI, TYVA, MS-TCDC, MNF and Ideathons Youth. Between 2021 and 2024 he provided hands-on mentorship for more than 50 recipients of seed-fund grants provided by IRI’s Ideathon for Tanzanian youth. He provided Business Mentorship Support to Accelerate 2030 Program Businesses for impact Hub Dar es Salaam. In August 2020 he was a Jury in the National Pitching Competition with the aim of selecting four startups for the Southern African Innovation Support (SAIS) Tanzania Startups to Boost up Bootcamp. He provided Career Guidance mentorship for adolescent youth in the Alumni Exchange Mentorship Program, U.S Embassy Nov 2019 – May 2020.
Fussi provided Local Government Budget Cycle mentorship to local grantee of Making All Voices Count (MAVC) in Dec 2016 – Feb 2017. Through Exchanging America Fussi provided leadership mentorship to Jacob Weinmann who was a Management Trainee from Keller Logistics Group, Defiance, in U.S, Ohio. He was the Private office Advisor on Private Sector development for the Deputy Minister of Agriculture (2019-2020).
Between 2011 and 2012 he was one of the two best Africa youth to win the World Bank Institute grant for the community action project titled RipotiRushwa managed through British Council. Some of the companies that Fussi worked included, CGG a Petroleum and Seismic Acquisition French company and a joint venture of Geomechanics & ALISTAIR all contracted by East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline Project (EACOP) for Geo-Physical Survey and Geo-technical survey between 2017 and 2019.
With his outstanding performance consultancy across the African continent, Fussi holds a Masters of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development from the University of Dar es Salaam Business School (UDBS).