Dr Tobias Ochieng Nyumba is a researcher for the Development Corridors Partnership (DCP) Project based at the African Conservation Centre (ACC) and Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation (ICCA), University of Nairobi. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Since 2005, Dr Nyumba has worked with research and conservation organisations in Kenya and abroad including Centre for Training and integrated Research in ASAL Development (CETRAD), the Space for Giants (K) Trust, the African Wildlife Foundation and the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme in the United Kingdom leading science and applied research projects to promote biodiversity conservation, human development and livelihoods, and capacity building.
Dr Nyumba is currently an Associate Director for the Dakota Wesleyan University, USA; in Nairobi, an Associate at the University of Nairobi’s Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation, a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) and an Advisory Panel Member for the Conservation Evidence’s Mammal Synopsys, University of Cambridge; Lead Author for Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Values Assessment and a host of other publications. With training in political ecology, Dr Nyumba’s interests revolve around the exploration of the interactions among conservation and development intervention, human well-being and poverty alleviation, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
