Lilian Namuma Sarah Kong'ani

Lilian Namuma S. Kong'ani is an environmental governance and management expert. She is a mediator, an alumna fellow at the Mawazo Learning Exchange Programme, Mawazo Institute, Kenya, and the Laureate of the 2022 African Peacebuilding Network of Social Science Research Council Individual Research Fellowship grant. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and participated in several local and international conferences. Lilian is interested and passionate about natural resources governance and management, climate change, community development, conflict resolution, peacebuilding, gender mainstreaming, environmental impact assessment, sustainable development, and humanitarian work, among others. She has been awarded, inter alia, the German Academic Service Postdoctoral Researcher’s Climate Change Networking Tour 2022, a special recognition for her exceptional service in co-organizing the XIX International Association Study for the Commons Biennial Conference 2023, the UoN@50 Achievers’ award for her contribution towards the establishment of the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies (WMI), and exemplary service to the college. Previously, Kong ’ani worked as a Tutorial Fellow/Lecturer at the University of Nairobi and as an Administrative Assistant at the WMI, where she participated in the planning, coordination, and implementation of the Stabilizing Kenya through Resolving Forest-Related Conflicts (STAKE) and Promoting the Critical Role of Women in Climate Change Mitigation (wPOWER) projects. She also worked as an intern at the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Community Services Unit. She is currently a member of the Global Youth Forum’s Advisory Board and a registered lead expert with the National Environmental Management Authority. She believes in taking on new challenges and contributing to solutions to local and global development and environmental issues for inter- and intra-generational equity.