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Dr. Knut Christian Myhre

University of Oslo

Dr. Stephen M. Rucina

National Museums of Kenya – Earth Sciences Department – Palaeobotany and Palynology Section Dr. Rucina is a palynologist specialising in East African palaeoecology and is the head of the Palaeobotany and Palynology Section at the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi. He completed a PhD at the University of York examining Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of Mt. […]

Professor Joao Morais

SIDA Stockholm

Professor Ambreena Manji

British Institute in East Africa

Dr. Helida Oyieke

Dr. Helida Oyieke is the Director for Research and Collections at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi, where she oversees and provides leadership on research and collection programs in the institution. Dr. Oyieke started her research career in 1984 at the Kenyan Marine and Fisheries Institute in Mombasa where she rose to the rank […]

Professor Thomas Håkansson

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Professor Henrietta Moore

Cambridge University

Dr. Elizabeth Watson

University Senior Lecturer and Pybus Fellow of Newnham College, Department of Geography, Cambridge University, United Kingdom Liz Watson’s research focuses on the relations between livelihoods, institutions, environment and development in the drylands of the Horn of Africa. In Ethiopia, work in Konso examined the production and sustainability of its intensive agricultural terraced landscape, and focused […]

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