Director of Wildlife WorksWildlife Works
Dr. Mwangi Githiru is the Global Director of Conservation at Wildlife Works Ltd. He is responsible for evaluating environmental (biodiversity) and social impacts of Wildlife Works’ REDD+ projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He also has a keen interest in ecological economics and public policy and is involved with various national policy processes involving REDD+, including Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), nesting and benefit-sharing options, and the role of carbon markets in conservation. Mwangi is an ecology, biodiversity, and conservation biology expert with a D.Phil. in Zoology from the University of Oxford, UK, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has also successfully completed a three-year post-doctorate from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, under the Marie Curie Fellowship program. He is a Watson International Scholars of the Environment Program Fellow, as well as an Archbishop Tutu African Leadership Fellow and Kinship Conservation Fellow.