Senior Management – ACTS | African Centre for Technology Studies https://acts-net.org African Centre for Technology Studies Fri, 11 Apr 2025 07:30:44 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://acts-net.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-ACTS-Favicon-Dark-Green-32x32.webp Senior Management – ACTS | African Centre for Technology Studies https://acts-net.org 32 32 Caroline Bwire https://acts-net.org/team/caroline-bwire/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 05:09:39 +0000 https://acts-net.org/?post_type=team&p=3322 Dr. Caroline Mbaya https://acts-net.org/team/dr-caroline-mbaya/ Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:01:02 +0000 https://acts-net.org/?post_type=team&p=2662 Caroline Mbaya is the Program Lead for the Youth, Gender and Inclusive Development Program at ACTS. She has a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Masters in Research both from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Her industry experience spans from Banking and Finance, Monitoring and Evaluation, Policy analysis and Gender and Inclusion. Her research interests are Entrepreneurship, Gender, Youth and future of work. 

]]> Dr. Dorcas Kalele https://acts-net.org/team/dr-dorcas-kalele/ Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:51:34 +0000 https://acts-net.org/?post_type=team&p=2659 Dr. Dorcas Kalele is an agriculture and climate change adaptation expert with over 15 years of experience in agriculture research and development. Dorcas holds a PhD in Climate Change and Adaptation, University of Nairobi, Kenya, MSc in Crop Protection, Ghent University, Belgium and a BSc. in Horticulture, Moi University, Kenya. She is the Head of the Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security Program at ACTS. Her expertise includes inclusive climate-smart innovations and technologies for resilient, sustainable and profitable agri-food systems, transdisciplinary and action-oriented research, capacity strengthening, plant health systems, transformative agriculture policies and investments. She is interested in research that cuts across science-policy-practice interface, while integrating gender and social inclusion to enhance smallholder rural farmers’ food and nutrition security, climate resilience, and social and economic empowerment and transformation. More of her work can be accessed here https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2576-6075;https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorcas-kalele-ph-d-a475824/ 

]]> Dr. Winston Ojenge https://acts-net.org/team/dr-winston-ojenge/ Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:44:54 +0000 https://acts-net.org/?post_type=team&p=2657 Education background – PhD in computer science; MSc Information systems (AI major)

Areas of expertise and research – AI/machine learning; Governance and Ethics of AI; Digital technologies

LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/ojenge-winston-phd-0561161a9?trk=public_post_main-feed-card-text&originalSubdomain=ke

Google scholar – https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AtNbbC0AAAAJ&hl=en

]]> Dr. Agnes Lutomiah https://acts-net.org/team/dr-agnes-lutomiah/ Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:29:31 +0000 https://acts-net.org/?post_type=team&p=2650 Dr. Agnes Lutomiah is a research fellow, at the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS). She is working under the Science Granting Council Initiative (SGCI), Strengthening the Capacity of Africa’s Science Granting Councils in the Use of Evidence in Policy and Decision Making (Evi-Pol) project.
Dr. Lutomiah graduated with a PhD in Science and Technology Studies in 2020 at the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST). Her doctoral research focused on the scientific production of scientists in the Kenyan science system. Her current broad research interests are: Higher education in Africa, bibliometrics, scientometrics and research performance.

]]> Dr. Joel Onyango https://acts-net.org/team/dr-joel-onyango/ Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:12:28 +0000 https://acts-net.org/?post_type=team&p=2644 Joel has worked for 15 years in research and management with a focus on science technology and innovation; climate change adaptation and mitigation, natural resources management, entrepreneurship and markets and sustainable development. Joel’s areas of expertise include project resourcing and management, investigation, strategic planning, sustainable development assessment; market and entrepreneurship analytics; capacity development and management; and innovation systems. Joel holds a DBA from Aoyama Business School, Tokyo, Japan with a focus on Entrepreneurship Development, and followed a PhD program at Wageningen University and IHE Delft Institute for Water Education on Aquatic Ecosystems. He received a post-doc through ACTS on governance of socio-technical transformation in collaboration with Harvard Kennedy School, UFZ-Leipzig, and University of Sussex; and on low emission development from Wageningen University. Joel is the current head of programme for Climate Resilient Economies, and the Director for Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Impact, at African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS).

]]> Dr. Catherine Kilelu https://acts-net.org/team/dr-catherine-kilelu-2/ Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:10:05 +0000 https://acts-net.org/?post_type=team&p=2643 Dr. Catherine Kilelu is the Director of Communication, Outreach and Partnerships and a Senior Research Fellow in the Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security (AFNS) Program at ACTS.  She leads on enhancing ACTS’ visibility and reach as a regional science, technology and innovation (STI) research and policy think tank through dissemination of quality research, evidence-based policy engagement and expanding partnerships.  Catherine holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Wageningen University, under the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Chair and has vast experience in research for development having worked for various organizations.

She leads a diverse portfolio of action research projects in sub-Saharan Africa on sustainable and inclusive innovation-driven agrifood systems transformation linked to food and nutrition security, market development and competitiveness, job creation and resilient livelihoods. She also work in sustainability transitions. She has published on these themes. She was a member of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission Task force on Green Recovery.

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]]> Pheles Ngovo https://acts-net.org/team/pheles-ngovo/ Wed, 04 Dec 2024 07:56:08 +0000 https://acts-net.org/?post_type=team&p=2641 Dr. Ann Kingiri https://acts-net.org/team/dr-ann-kingiri/ Wed, 04 Dec 2024 07:45:47 +0000 https://acts-net.org/?post_type=team&p=2637 Ann Kingiri is a Principal Research Fellow and the Director of Research and Innovation. She holds a PhD degree, in Development Policy and Practice, from UK; A Master’s degree in biosafety in plant biotechnology (Environmental Biosafety), from Mache Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy; a Master of Science in Plant Pathology and a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, both from University of Nairobi, Kenya. Dr. Kingiri’s current research focusses on Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) policy and inclusive development in the context of Africa. Her innovation-oriented research, capacity strengthening and policy analysis are anchored in innovation systems and transformative thinking across sectors including agriculture, renewable technologies, biotechnology, digital innovation, gender and climate change. She has published on various areas including governance of technologies, digital innovation, gender, renewable energy, climate change policy, and STI among others. She serves in several national regional and international technical committees oriented to STI and development. 

Link to publications – https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7006-8508 

]]> Prof. Tom Ogada https://acts-net.org/team/prof-tom-ogada/ Wed, 04 Dec 2024 06:15:28 +0000 https://acts-net.org/?post_type=team&p=2626

Prof. Ogada has enormous experience from senior management levels in research, university, public and private sector. Prof. Ogada holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Belarusian Polytechnic, Minsk, USSR (1987), PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany (1995) and MBA in Strategic Management from Moi University, Kenya (2005).  He started his career in Moi University, where he worked for 18 years and rose to the position of Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Engineering in 2000 where he helped to establish MSc and PhD programs in Energy Studies. He was Head of the Department of production engineering for six years (1996-2003) and founder Managing Director of Moi University Holding Limited, a technology transfer arm of the University (2003-2006). From 2006 to 2009, he was the Managing Director of the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute. Between 2009 and 2011, he joined the National Economic and Social Council, a Kenya government policy advisory body, as an UNDP funded research fellow where he was responsible for the manufacturing sector and the development of the Science, technology and Innovation policy. Parallel to this assignment he was also Advisor to the British Council on a DFID funded project – African Knowledge Transfer Partnership-. Between 2013 and 2017, he was County Minister responsible for Trade, Industrialization and Investment in Homa Bay County. From December 2017, he has been the Chairman of the Kenyan National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI).

Since 2000, Prof Ogada has been a consultant for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in the areas of national intellectual property (IP) policy and strategy, institutional IP Policy as well as commercialization of research results and technology transfer. A respected regional expert in this area, Prof Ogada has participated in development of national IP policy and strategy for Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Uganda, Ghana, Zambia. He developed three guidelines and tools to help developing countries in formulating national intellectual property policy and strategies. in addition he has also helped several universities in Africa to develop Institutional IP Policy and authored a guideline to support institutions. On technology transfer and commercialization of R&D results, Prof Ogada has been invited as a speaker in several forums globally. Apart from the above mentioned five countries, Prof Ogada has also shared his experience in Rwanda, Senegal, Morocco, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, and Nigeria, as well as in South Korea, Malaysia, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. This wealth of experience will be critical as he steers the STI Agenda of ACTS
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