Kennedy Mbeva is the Secretary to the Advisory Committee, CO-Convernor of  the  African Research and  Impact Network(ARIN). He is currently a Research Associate at the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS). He is also a PhD candidate, and a Research Associate at the Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne. His PhD project examines the design of environmental standards in Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs).

Kennedy’s broader research interest is in the political economy of low-carbon transition, and his previous professional experiences include international climate diplomacy. He has an extensive research publication profile; please see an extensive list here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uj7GUIoAAAAJ&hl=en