About

I am a professor and practitioner in geomatics and geospatial information science, with a long arc in teaching, research, and institutional leadership in Kenya and internationally. My training spans surveying and geoinformatics (Nairobi), photogrammetry and web GIS (Stuttgart), and civil engineering with a focus on remote sensing and numerical modelling (Tokyo), followed by postdoctoral work on wetlands and radar mapping with partners in Germany and East Africa.

For over a decade I helped steer national land information work at the National Land Commission — including geoinformation management and, later, land administration and management — at a time of major reform and digital investment. I have also served in university leadership and programme development, from department and institute direction to graduate supervision and research partnerships.

Today I combine advisory and survey practice with academic collaboration: mentoring researchers, pursuing funded work at the boundary of land, climate, and spatial data infrastructure, and contributing to policy dialogue where technical credibility matters.

Land is not only a technical layer in a database — it is tenure, livelihood, and history. Systems that ignore institutions fail; institutions without trustworthy data stall. I care about closing that gap responsibly.

Systems should earn trust: clear standards, interoperable services, and governance that matches the sensitivity of the resource.

Legacy is the capacity you leave behind — colleagues, students, and routines that outlast any single posting. That is the measure I use alongside outputs and titles.