Edith Alusa
An ardent believer in African solutions for African problems, Edith has worked for over 25 years in environmental management in the engineering, tourism, horticultural, climate change, and energy spaces. She has held several board positions in both private sector Non-profit and for-profit organizations, including being appointed to serve as a director on the public sector Tourism Finance Corporation Board. She is currently a Board member of the Global Ecotourism Network (GEN) and has served as a technical advisor to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the government of the Netherlands (tourism).
Edith is currently the Executive Director at Upper Tana Nairobi Water Fund, which was the first public/private trust set up in Africa by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to support conservation and ecosystem services in the watershed that supplies Nairobi city with water and electricity. She previously served as CEO at Ecotourism Kenya which promotes sustainable tourism practices in Kenya. She is a co-founder and Advisory Board Member at EED Advisory Ltd, a Pan-African consultancy actively involved in providing African solutions to African challenges within the climate change, energy, and water management spaces.
Edith attended the University of Eastern Africa Baraton for her undergraduate degree in Geography and Biology, then read for an MSc in Water and Environmental Management at Loughborough University (UK), School of Architecture Civil and Building Engineering. She is a Chevening Scholar and is currently a researcher at the University of Nairobi school of Law and is an ICRAF Fellow and Certified Professional Mediator.
She has been an on and off stay at home mother to her two children, who are now teenagers, and believes that everyone has the capacity to make a positive change in the way the world works for a sustainable future. She enjoys the serenity of the outdoors, loves the process of perpetual education, is insatiably curious, can sing, loves manual cars, and pretends to know how to play the piano.
Email: edithbosire@gmail.com
