Director, Managing Director LTS Africa Ltd.
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Qualifications MSc Resource Assessment for Development Planning, University of East Anglia (UK) 1990; BA Geography & International Development, Clark University (USA) 1986 Alex has over 19 years experience in integrated conservation and development initiatives in Africa. He has in-depth knowledge and expertise in natural resource management within local level, national and regional contexts as well as within public sector and civil society institutions. He has experience of numerous African ecosystems from montane, lowland and coastal tropical moist forests, temperate grasslands and woodlands, and arid and semi-arid lands. He served as LTS Team Leader in Cameroon (1999-2002) on an integrated forest conservation project before spending four years in the Edinburgh office (2002-2006) where he led the Defra/ECTF Darwin Initiative Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, as well as establish a track record in monitoring and evaluation and environmental management. He worked as Adviser on the UNDP/UNEP/GoK Poverty and Environment Initiative (PEI) in Kenya (2006-2008) and now works full-time for LTS based in Nairobi, Kenya, where he is the Managing Director of LTS Africa Ltd. Alex brings practical approaches to participatory planning and monitoring processes, mainstreaming of environment into development planning processes, and guiding and facilitating strategic and operational level pro-poor development and conservation projects and programmes. Alex served as Interim Coordinator (Aug 2008 to November 2009) for the Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF), a GBP 100 million Fund launched by Prime Minister Gordon Brown (UK), Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg (Norway) and COMIFAC Ministers in June 2008. The CBFF aims to alleviate poverty and address climate change through reducing the rate of deforestation by developing the capacity of people and institutions in the Congo Basin countries to manage their forests, and help local communities find livelihoods that are consistent with the conservation of forests. Alex worked with the CBFF Governing Council Co-Chairs, Rt. Hon. Paul Martin (Former Canadian Prime Minister) and Prof. Wangari Maathai (Nobel Peace Laureate) and the AfDB in establishing the CBFF Secretariat and grant-making systems within the African Development Bank in Tunis, Yaounde and Kinshasa.
Countries Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Djibouti, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, RDC-Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Switzerland, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States |  |
