The Generation H project has an Advisory Board. Please find a introduction of the Advisory Board members below.

 

 

Rev. Canon Chris Kinyanjui Kamau is a prominent church leader and lawyer in Kenya. He is the General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK), a position he assumed in October 2019. He is an ordained priest of the Anglican Church of Kenya and serves in the Diocese of Machakos. 

He holds a Masters Degree in International Economic Law from the University of South Africa, a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Nairobi, and a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Kenya School of Law. He was admitted to the Roll of Advocates of the High Court of Kenya in 2002 and is a Certified Public Secretary (CPS-K). He is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya and the Law Society of Kenya. 

 He has worked as a Senior Programme Officer for Governance and Social Services in the NCCK, where he oversaw initiatives in civic education, elections observation, peace building, conflict management, and constitutional reforms. He also served as the Clerk of the County Assembly and the Secretary of the County Assembly Service Board for Murangá County from 2014 to 2019. 

He has contributed to the Constitution of Kenya review process by providing technical support to the Ufungamano Initiative (2005 referendum) and later to the Christian Church Leaders Forum (2010 referendum). 

 He serves in several Boards among them SMEP Microfinance Bank, Jumuia Hospitals Limited, Christian Student Leadership Centre, St. Paul University and the National Council for Population and Development. He is married to Jane and they have three daughters. 

 

Gareth Haysom is an urban food systems researcher at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, where he co-leads the Urban Food Systems Research Cluster. With a PhD from the university of Cape Town, he focuses on the intersection between the urban system and the food system. With using food as a lens to better understand urbanization in cities of the global South with a specific interest in African cities, Gareth Haysom‘s interests align well with the Generation H project. Therefore, he works actively with officials in various African cities, attempting to embed food systems activities in planning and urban governance.  In this way, Gareth Haysom provides valuable insights and advice for Generation H. Link 

 

Kyle Ferguson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College of the City University of New York.  Specializing in ethics, bioethics, and environmental ethics, he works on a wide range of moral, social, and political challenges related to science, technology, health, and the environment.  His current research focuses on the ethics of climate change adaptation and resilience.                                           

Since 2018, he has co-led the NYU–University of Ghana Research Integrity Training Program (NYU-UG RITP), a bioethics capacity building program funded by the Fogarty International Center, NIH (R25TW010886).  In addition to training more than 50 fellows in Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, NYU-UG RITP also launched Ghana’s first graduate program in bioethics, the M.Sc. in Bioethics program at the University of Ghana School of Public Health. 

Ferguson holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center and a B.A. in Philosophy from Augustana College in his native Illinois.  He completed an ethics fellowship in the Bioethics Program at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.  He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen journal articles and book chapters, and he is co-editor (with Jeremy Randel Koons) of Wilfrid Sellars’s The Metaphysics of Practice: Writings on Action, Community, and Obligation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023). 

 

Natalie Evans is a Social Scientist with a background in Public Health and Anthropology and a long-term interest in ethics. As an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethics, Law and Humanities, she leads the Research Integrity programme within the Department. Natalie has trained research integrity trainers from Europe, Africa, and North America, and leads WPs in a number of European Projects focused on Research Integrity and Ethics and Global Research, such as PREPARED and RE4GREEN. Her broad knowledge of research ethics is a valuable addition to Generation H’s advisory board. Link