Cheriel Neo
Measuring Social Impact
Gojo & Company
Cheriel Neo leads impact measurement and Social Performance Management at Gojo & Company, a holding company with a group of financial service providers serving 1.5 million low-income clients in India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Myanmar and Tajikistan. Gojo is dedicated to developing a deep understanding of how poor people manage their money and designing innovative solutions to help low-income clients achieve their goals.
Cheriel works with group companies to collect and analyse data in the form of management information and surveys, and is also responsible for Gojo’s two financial diary projects, which follow the lives of 200 low-income people in Cambodia and Sri Lanka. As a qualified external SPI4 auditor, she conducts social performance audits at group companies and works to ensure that Client Protection Standards and the Universal Standards of Social and Environmental Performance are put into practice across the group.
Prior to Gojo, Cheriel worked at Social Finance UK, the financial intermediary which pioneered the Social Impact Bond, an innovative financing mechanism. She has worked on designing solutions and funding mechanisms across a wide range of issues and geographies, from maternal and child health in Cameroon to young people becoming independent from state care in the UK. She was a founding director of Proof Bakery, a social enterprise training and employing refugee women in the UK.
