Regional Director for West Africa Organised Crime Observatory, ENACT Programme, Institute for Security Studies (ISS) Dakar, Senegal.

Prior to this he was Senior Researcher and Project Manager in the Complex Threats in Africa Programme at the ISS Pretoria and led the work on International Criminal Justice at the ISS. He works in the field of transitional justice, counterterrorism and transnational organised crime, with a particular focus on research methods, capacity building and technical assistance for criminal justice actors in African states.

He holds a Bachelor of Law (Hons.) from the University of Nairobi (Kenya) and a Masters in International Criminal Law (cum laude) from Stellenbosch University (South Africa). He is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya with experience in civil litigation, conveyancing, commercial law and international criminal law and procedure.

With strong programme and project management skills, he has extensive experience in international justice, particularly with accountability processes; and participatory and reparative rights of victims. He previously worked as a Project Leader for the Kenya and International Justice Desk at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, Cape Town, South Africa and Chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania.