Galcano Canny Mulaku is Professor of Geospatial Engineering in the School of Engineering, University of Nairobi, Kenya. He hold a B.Sc (Surveying & Photogrammetry)(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1978), Postgraduate Diploma ( Photogrammetry)(ITC, Netherlands,1982), M.Sc (Surveying Engineering)(University of Calgary, Canada, 1987) and Ph.D (Surveying Engineering)(University of New Brunswick, Canada, 1995). He was born in 1955 at Emakwara village of Busia County in Western Kenya and is married with four grown up children. Prof. Mulaku has been involved with higher education for nearly 40 years and has mentored and graduated many students at the University of Nairobi, the Kenya Polytechnic and the Survey of Kenya training school. His current areas of academic interest, in which he has extensively published, are cadastre / land information management / spatial data infrastructure. At the University of Nairobi, he has previously served as Chairman of the Department of Geospatial & Space Technology (1998 – 2001) and Dean of the School of Engineering (2003 – 2005). In university governance, Prof. Mulaku served as a member of the Governing Council of Meru University of Science & Technology from 2009 to 2017. Prof. Mulaku represents the University of Nairobi on the Eastern Africa Land Administration Network (EALAN), which network he also chaired from 2017 to 2018.

Outside academia, Prof. Mulaku is a Full Member of the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya and a Licensed Surveyor in Kenya. He has participated in some key local and international consultancy assignments such as the Kenya Land Policy formulation process, the Kenya School Mapping Project, the Mozambique Land Administration Improvement Project, the Rwanda land reforms, the World Bank Kenya Land Governance Assessment Framework, among others. He was the Chairman (2017-2020) of the Kenya Bureau of Standards TC168 on geoinformation standards. Prof. Mulaku has received an award from the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) for his service to the Surveying profession; He has also been awarded by the University of Nairobi for pioneering the teaching of GIS in the university in the 1980s.

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