Science, Environment and Development Group

Mr. David Kepue ole Nkedianye
Center for International Development
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
502 Rubenstein Building
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (1) 617-496-0739
Fax: (1) 617-496-8753
Email: david_nkedianye "at" ksg.harvard.edu
Group affiliation: Doctoral Research Fellow

David Kepue ole Nkedianye is a Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development and a doctoral candidate studying pastoralism and land use at the Centre for Environmental Change and Sustainability in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. His dissertation focuses on drought-induced impacts on livelihoods and the role of policy and protected areas on the Maasai of East Africa. He is also a Graduate Fellow at the International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya where he previously worked as a Community Facilitator in Kitengela, south of Nairobi. He has worked with the Friends of Nairobi National Park, the Mara Conservancy, and the African Wildlife Foundation on pastoral livelihoods issues within community conservation areas and benefit-sharing mechanisms in support of conservation. He also worked as a secondary school teacher. He is involved in volunteer efforts in education and development. He holds a Masters degree in Rural Sociology and Community Development from the University of Nairobi.