Ann Numi is a researcher at the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) under the Science Technology, Innovation, Knowledge and Society (STIKS) programme. Ann has over seven years of experience in transdisciplinary research and project management, specializing in innovation & sustainable development. Her research interests include innovation and sustainable development, agricultural biotechnology, environmental sustainability, clean energy, gender equality, and inclusion.
Ann has over seven years of experience in research and project management, specializing in innovation & sustainable development, agricultural biotechnology, environmental sustainability, clean energy, capacity building related projects. She possesses research expertise, holds exceptional data collection, analysis, and report writing skills, coupled with the capability to coordinate transdisciplinary research projects. With extensive regional exposure, she has over six years of experience undertaking research project activities across Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Botswana. She has been engaged in several international, donor-funded projects under the capacity of project officer/ researcher. These projects include Transformative Innovation and the 4th Industrial Revolution for Sustainable Development (Trilateral Chair programme), Transforming Climate Innovation Ecosystems through Inclusive Transdisciplinarity (TransCIIT) project, African Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems (AfricaLics), Evidence for informing optimization and scaling of youth and women-led clean energy enterprises and business models in Kenya, Malawi, Uganda & South Africa (Evi-sic) project, among others.
She is currently pursuing a PhD in innovation and sustainable development at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST) under the DSI/NRF Trilateral Research Chair in Transformative Innovation, the 4th Industrial Revolution and Sustainable Development (TRCTI). She holds an MSc. in Environmental science, specializing in Limnology and Wetland Management which was a Joint degree programme conducted in BOKU (University of Natural resources and Life Science) Vienna, Austria, Egerton University, Kenya and UNESCO-IHE (Institute for Water Education) Delft, The Netherlands. She also possesses a BSc. in Biotechnology from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya. Ann has also pursed several short courses including Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) from the University of Nairobi (UoN), Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies, Innovation and Sustainable Development at Lund University among others.
