Governance & Team Members

The ICAN team is diverse and includes representatives from academic, research, non-governmental, community-based, and international organizations working on conservation and development issues in East Africa.

The governance of the project is structured as follows:

• ICAN’s Steering Committee is made up of the two principal investigators and the executive director of the African Conservation Centre (ACC);
• The steering committee consults and collaborates with members of the ICAN Advisory Board (Co-applicants and collaborators with “AB” beside their names below);
• The co-chairs of ICAN’s four working groups (listed on the Working Groups page) together with members of the steering committee and the project coordinators collectively make up the Project Management Committee, which is responsible for managing research activities in Kenya and Tanzania by communicating with partner organizations and allocating funds to site-specific research teams. Project Management Committee members are denoted with (PMC) below. 

Co-applicants

Caroline Archambault
Assistant Professor, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands

Colin Chapman (AB)
Professor, Department of Anthropology, McGill University, Canada

Dominique Caouette
Associate Professor, Political Science, Université de Montréal, Canada

Philip Dearden (AB)
Professor, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Canada

Gordon Hickey
Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University

Tim Johns
Professor, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition; Department of Plant Science, McGill University

Nicolas Kosoy
Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University

Claudia Mitchell
Professor, Department of Education, McGill University, Canada

Blair Rutherford
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Canada

Gunther Schlee (AB)
Professor, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany

Colin Scott
Professor, Department of Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Jon Unruh
Professor, Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Ismael Vaccaro
Professor, Department of Anthropology & McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Research Institution Collaborators

Pius Adesanmi
Director, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Michael Bollig (AB)
Professor, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne, Germany

Jackson Efitre (AB)
Lecturer, Department of Biological Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Robert Fletcher
Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands

Christina Gabbert
Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany

Ced Hesse (AB)
Principal Researcher, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), UK

Katherine Homewood (AB)
Professor of Human Ecology, Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, UK

Alex Wilbard Kisingo
Senior Lecturer, College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka, Tanzania

Karen McAllister
Lecturer/Researcher, Department of Anthropology, McGill University, Canada

J. Terence McCabe (AB)
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States

Stephen Moiko (PMC)
Deputy Director, African Drylands Institute for Sustainability, University of Nairobi, Kenya

Alais Ole Morindat (AB)
Researcher/consultant, International Institute for Environment and Development, UK

Jesse T. Njoka (AB) (PMC)
Director, African Drylands Institute for Sustainability, University of Nairobi, Kenya

Christine Noe
Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania [website]

Philip Osano
Research Fellow, African Center for Technology Studies, Nairobi, Kenya

Agnes Sirima
Senior Lecturer, Department of Wildlife Management, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania

Hussein Sosovele
Senior Lecturer, Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Judith Mbau Syombua (PMC)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology, University of Nairobi, Kenya

 

Conservation/development organization Collaborators

Damien Bell (AB)
Executive Director, Honeyguide, Tanzania

Bruce Downie
Founding Director, The Kesho Trust, Tanzania

Faria Chelimo Tarus
Administrative Assistant, Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association, Kenya

Fiona Flintan
Technical Adviser and Coordinator for the ILC Rangelands Initiative led by ILRI and RECONCILE, Kenya

Dickson Simiren Ole Kaelo
Chief Executive Officer, Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association, Kenya

Emmanual A. Kallonga
Executive Director, Hakikazi Catalyst, Tanzania

Robert T. Kamakia
Program Coordinator, PALISEP Ngorongoro, Tanzania

John Kamanga (PMC)
Coordinator, South Rift Association of Land Owners (SORALO), Kenya

Johnson Ole Kaunga
Director, Indigenous Movement for Peace Advancement and Conflicts Transformation (IMPACT), Kenya

Lendukay Kimay
Community Officer, African Wildlife Foundation, Tanzania

Benson Leiyan
General Manager, Amboseli Ecosystem Trust, Kenya

Edward Lekaita
Legal Advisor & Advocacy Programme Coordinator, Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT), Tanzania

Edward Loure
Program Coordinator, Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT), Arusha, Tanzania

Davis Lumala
Project Officer, The Kesho Trust, Tanzania

Fred Nelson
Executive Director, Maliasili Initiatives, Underhill, VT, United States

Michael Ochieng Odhiambo
Director, People, Land and Rural Development (PLRD), Kenya & Co-founder/CTO, RECONCILE, Kenya

Dan Ouma (PMC)
Rangelands and Livelihoods Task Force Programme Officer, Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF), Arusha, Tanzania

Shadrack Ouma Omondi
Executive Director, Resource Conflict Institute (RECONCILE), Nakuru, Kenya

Margaret Otieno
Coordinator, Wildlife Clubs of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

Stanley K. Riamit
Executive Director, Indigenous Livelihoods Enhancement Partners (ILEPA), Kenya

Luca Rikoyian
General Director, Maasai Visions Organization, Arusha, Tanzania

Joseph Ole Simel (PMC)
Executive Director, Mainyoito Pastoralists Integrated Development Organization (MPIDO), Kenya

Johnson Ole Sipitiek
Conservation Development Enterprise Manager, ACC, Nairobi, Kenya

Michael Ole Tiampati
National Coordinator, Pastoralist Development Network of Kenya (PDNK)

Charles Tumwesigye
Chief Conservation Area Manager, Uganda Wildlife Authority, Kampala, Uganda

James Twala
Project Manager, Indigenous Livelihoods Enhancement Partners (ILEPA), Kenya

George Wambura
Executive Director, Community Wildlife Management Areas Consortium, Tanzania

Tim Wright
Founding/Executive Director, Sauti Moja Canada, Pembrooke, Canada

V. Corey Wright
Program Advisor, Sauti Moja Canada, Pembrooke, Canada

Timothy Yaile
Program Coordinator, Pastoral Women’s Council, Tanzania