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Ann N Kingiri
Research Fellow with the RIU Central Research Team (CRT) focusing on East Africa.
Ann has extensive experience in regulation of new biotechnologies in the African context at the level of policy and practice. She worked as regulatory scientist in Kenya for more than 10 years before joining RIU program as a research fellow. As a technical and biosafety expert, she has been involved in the drafting and legalization of biotechnology and biosafety policy instruments in Kenya and partly in Uganda and Tanzania. Ann's current research with RIU focuses on the role of policy and the enabling environment for putting research into use with specific reference to the regulation of biotechnology in Africa. She will also be looking into the interface between gender and innovations with a view of understanding the emerging debates around this subject, and the implications for putting research into use.
Education
Ann holds a PhD in development policy and practice in the area of governance of emerging science and technologies (Open University, UK). In addition, she holds a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture and a Masters of Science degree in plant pathology (both from University of Nairobi, Kenya); a Masters of Science degree in Biosafety in Plant Biotechnology (UNIDO/BECA and Mache Polytechnic University, Italy).
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Ann N Kingiri
Research Fellow with the RIU Central Research Team (CRT) focusing on East Africa.
Ann has extensive experience in regulation of new biotechnologies in the African context at the level of policy and practice. She worked as regulatory scientist in Kenya for more than 10 years before joining RIU program as a research fellow. As a technical and biosafety expert, she has been involved in the drafting and legalization of biotechnology and biosafety policy instruments in Kenya and partly in Uganda and Tanzania. Ann's current research with RIU focuses on the role of policy and the enabling environment for putting research into use with specific reference to the regulation of biotechnology in Africa. She will also be looking into the interface between gender and innovations with a view of understanding the emerging debates around this subject, and the implications for putting research into use.
Education
Ann holds a PhD in development policy and practice in the area of governance of emerging science and technologies (Open University, UK). In addition, she holds a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture and a Masters of Science degree in plant pathology (both from University of Nairobi, Kenya); a Masters of Science degree in Biosafety in Plant Biotechnology (UNIDO/BECA and Mache Polytechnic University, Italy).
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