I graduated with a collaborative Ph.D. in Environmental Economics from the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and Vrije University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 2018. Previously, I had undertaken both my undergraduate (B.A. in Economics, 1999) and post-graduate studies (M.Sc. in Entrepreneurship, 2003) at Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya. Over the last 7 years of my career, I have gained considerable knowledge and experience in both leadership and in applied research focusing on agriculture, environment and rural development.
Currently, I am a Research Fellow at the Environment for development Initiative-Kenya where my work focuses on conducting relevant research, reviewing and analyzing relevant country, regional and global policy documents; engaging relevant stakeholders in government and private sector and; implementing capacity building activities on a wide range of issues in agriculture, environment and rural development As a lecturer at Moi University, I have headed the Department of Natural Resources where I was tasked with: general management and coordination of the departmental staff in teaching and research; exercising oversight over departmental finances and; meeting the set performance contracting and quality standards of the university. Moreover, I have taught numerous courses including microeconomics, development economics, environmental economics, natural resource economics, research methods, statistics, and econometrics.
I have also worked as a consultant economist for several agencies and organizations like the Ministry of Agriculture (GoK) under the university team of experts, Kenya Wildlife Service, Batmen Engineering Associates, and Pwani University/KALRO among others. In these consultancies, my work focused on conducting: cost-benefit analysis for water dams; feasibility studies for smallholder water and irrigation projects; agricultural markets and value chains analysis, or; designing economic evaluation tools for biogas technologies and forest water catchments.
As well, I have knowledge and skills in economic impact evaluation from J-Pal and AERC including the development and implementation of impact evaluation methodology - conducting desk reviews/research, preparing inception reports, conducting field missions, and finally, drafting impact evaluation reports.
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