Location: Kenya

Kahaso Mtana

Kahaso joined Maliasili in January 2022 and brings with him over 18 years of experience working within the private and social sectors across the African continent and the UK. He…
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Richard Ndiga

Richard is a professional with 15 years’ project management experience across a range of business disciplines including information technology, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility, primarily in Eastern and Southern Africa.…
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Kasmira Cockerill

Kasmira has spent most of her professional career working for community and indigenous-led conservation organizations in Kenya, with an interest in strengthening links between indigenous knowledge and academic research. This…
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Wanjiku Kinuthia

Wanjiku’s primary role is to provide direct communications support to Maliasili’s portfolio partners and the leadership program. Wanjiku has close to a decade’s experience in high-level communication strategy with a…
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James Kiogora

Kiogora joined Maliasili in January 2022 bringing with him over 15 years of experience in human resource management in the conservation sector. He has been responsible for HR functions ranging…
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Dominic Kuria

Before joining Maliasili, Dominic worked as a Global Accountant with an international non-profit organization working in the financial inclusion space, where his responsibilities were vast and included financial analyses, grants…
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Naiya Raja

Naiya joined Maliasili in March 2022, as a new member of the East Africa Portfolio team. With an undergraduate in Human Geography from the University of Durham, and Masters in…
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Dickson Njunge

Dickson joined Maliasili in March 2022 as an Associate for the East Africa Portfolio with the view of supporting organization development for achieving greater conservation impact. He is a Natural…
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Njenga Kahiro

Njenga has worked in the community-based natural resource management field for two decades. During this time, he developed a deep network and understanding of community conservation in Kenya. His experience…
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Akshay Vishwanath

Akshay joined Maliasili in June 2020. He has spent most of his career working on the governance aspects of natural resource management in Eastern and Southern Africa. He has wide-ranging…
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