Charles Nyandiga
Regional Team Leader-Africa at UNDP-GEF SGP
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Nyandiga is a seasoned programme management specialist with over 26 years of experience leading sustainable land management, forestry, climate change and natural capital initiatives across Africa and beyond. As UNDP Regional Team Leader–Africa he combines strategic oversight, country-level advisory work and resource mobilization to guide multidisciplinary teams and integrate policy with program delivery. He has deep hands-on experience translating complex technical theory into practical community-based adaptation, drylands ecology and energy solutions, and has overseen implementation in more than 30 countries. His background uniquely blends long-term field research and academic lecturing with senior UN programme quality assurance and results management expertise. Charles also brings proven partnership and negotiation skills from decades of multi-stakeholder work, and an uncommon track record of building regional research hubs and turning small grants into full-sized projects. Based in New York, he pairs a PhD in business administration and an MS in watershed management with practical field science dating to the establishment of dryland research stations in Kenya.
11 years of coding experience
The University of ArizonaBachelor’s Degree, Forestry, Second Class Honours Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Forestry, Second Class Honours Degree at Moi UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bussiness Administration, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bussiness Administration at Washington University in St. Louis
English, Kiswahili, luo (kenya and tanzania)
Github Skills (20)
data-structures8
data-analysis8
python8
frame8
pandas8
manipulation8
crossword8
data-science8
dataframes7
robot7
discourse7
ros6
data-manipulation6
django6
robotics6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Wessi/gesture_pkg
Sep 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:32 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
hansonrobotics/dlib_ws
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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