Evelyn Namubiru-Mwaura, PhD

Dr. Evelyn Namubiru-Mwaura is a senior international Consultant specialising in Climate Change, Environment, Gender, Policy and Strategy, Forestry and Natural Resources Governance. and former director for Stockholm Environment Institute Africa Centre which is based in Nairobi, Kenya. She has over 20 years of experience in Environmental and International Development. Her research interests include global development policy issues especially those related to climate change, land, agriculture and other natural resources governance. Evelyn has extensive experience in policy analysis, applied research, teaching, program and project management. Her experience in environmental management relates principally to Africa, where she has worked in over 15 countries. She has published on a wide variety of subjects including; land rights, natural resource tenure, climate change and gender. Dr Namubiru-Mwaura holds a joint PhD in Public Policy from Indiana University, Bloomington, with majors in environmental policy, political theory and methods, and public policy. In addition, she holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Management and Development (with distinction) from the Australian National University, and a BSc (Honors) in Forestry from Makerere University, Uganda. She has over seventeen years of experience in providing strategic leadership and policy and has led and coordinated several international programs and projects focusing on sustainable development, gender, natural resource governance, environmental conservation, climate change mitigation and adaptation through appointments with the Stockholm Environment Institute, theWorld Bank, GEF, UNDP, International Forestry Resources and Institutions, Makerere University, AGRA and the African Academy of Sciences. She has won several other awards including the Elinor Ostrom-Johan Skytte Fellowship, the International Foundation for Science award for field research, the Compton Foundation Peace & Security Fellowship and the Australian Sponsored Training Scholarship. Evelyn is the 2018/2019 Great Lakes Regional and Country Winner in the Agencies and Regulatory Authorities Sector of CEO Global's Most Influential Women in Business and Government. She is the current Vice President of the African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE) and Chairperson of the External Advisory Board, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation (ILSSI).