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Biography
Ronald Elly Wanda has joined PPI-Africa as a Senior Advisor on Research and Innovation. Wanda is a transdisciplinary scholar and researcher with extensive national and international experience and exposure. He has carried out many research programmes and projects in the last few years. His interest in restorative cultural practices as well as the role indigenous knowledge systems play in the administration of justice in Africa, has seen him publish extensively on political, peacebuilding, restorative justice as well as governance and development issues.
Wanda begun his education at Kakamega before proceeding to Stanmore in England. He studied Politics and International Development Studies at Middlesex University for his undergraduate degree, and later Political Justice and Human Rights for his postgraduate at Birkbeck College. He holds a Master’s degree in Governance and Ethics, and another in Political Science and Public Administration from Nairobi. Currently finalizing his doctoral studies in Political Science in South Africa, Wanda’s current research interests cover: Restorative justice in Eastern Africa; Afrikology; Community Sites of Knowledge and Indigenous knowledge systems; Epistemology, Ethics and Culture.
He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Journalist (CIoJ) and National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the United Kingdom as well as the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) based in Nairobi.
Wanda has been engaged in graduate teaching and training programmes with several administrative and research responsibilities at various institutions across East Africa including more recently the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis – where he was involved in the conceptualisation, resource mobilization for research and coordination of several research projects.