Dr. Cush Ngonzo-Luweso

Cush Ngonzo-Luweso: Dr. Ngonzo-Luweso received the best scholar award at Kenyatta University (Nairobi, Kenya) in the year 2014, and was the recipient of the 2011 H2O Adaptation Award from the Canadian International Development Research Center (IDRC). Cush is currently working at IWMI as the Focal Regional Manager of the Volta and Niger Basins (West Africa) for the CGIAR research program on "Water, Land and Ecosystem (WLE" led by IWMI as of April 2015. Prior to joining IWMI, he was a lecturer of advanced quantitative techniques and Economics of Watersheds at the Department of Geography of Kenyatta University (Nairobi, Kenya). He also worked in the public and private sectors in Kenya and DR Congo as well as countries like Mali, Uganda, Tanzania, Burkina Faso and Ghana, thus totaling 19 years of professional experience in teaching, research, project management and evaluation in Central, East and West Africa. He is a versatile researcher holding PhD and Masters of Applied Science in Integrated Watershed Management (esp. Economics of Water and Climate Change) from Kenyatta University (Nairobi, Kenya), and B.A. and M.A. in Applied Economics (Finance) from University of Kinshasa (DR Congo). He is also an Alumnus of the World Bank's IPDET Program at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), SLE/ Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) and the IASS - Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies -Potsdam (Germany). He has published over 20 papers, 7 book chapters and 2 books, all-focusing on of Water and Climate Change.