Hannah Wang’ombe

CEO - Association for Women in Energy and Extractives in Kenya

Hannah is the Chief Executive Officer at Association of Women in Energy and Extractives in Kenya. Previously Hannah was Head of Strategy and Planning as well as a researcher at the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), the leading Global think tank in Sub Sahara Africa. Her research interests and contribution in the extractives industry include Kenya are around issues on artisanal small scale mining and socio economic effects of large scale mining, on indigenous communities as well as investigating the impact of extractive industries on political settlements and conflict. In past she regularly contributed to opinion pages in the Business Daily on current policy taking place in the extractives industry in Kenya. Hannah has a Bsc in Economics from Daystar University, Kenya and an Msc. in International Finance and Economic Development from the University of Kent, UK.