Judi Wakhungu
Executive Director
African Centre for Technology Studies
Nairobi, Kenya
Email:
j.wakhungu@cgiar.orghttp://www.acts.or.keProfessor Judi Wakhungu is the Executive Director of the African Center for Technology Studies (ACTS)in Nairobi, Kenya. She was most recently an Associate
Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Pennsylvania State University where she also served as the Director of the Women in the Sciences & Engineering (WISE) Institute.
Prof. Wakhungu's research interests include energy resources management;
materials; energy policy and development; science, technology, and development; and gender issues in science and technology policy.
Prof. Wakhungu received a B.S. in geology from St. Lawrence University in New
York, a M.S. degree in petroleum geology from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada, and her Ph.D. in energy resources
management from Pennsylvania State
University. She has held a number of energy sector positions in the civil service,
industry, and higher education in her native
country of Kenya, where she has a long list of firsts. She was the first woman
geologist in the Ministry of Energy and Regional Development, where her
duties entailed exploring for
geothermal energy in
Kenya's Rift Valley. Prof.
Wakhungu was also the first
female petroleum geologist
in the National Oil
Corporation of Kenya. She
was also the first female
faculty member in the
Department of Geology at
the University of Nairobi.
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