Our Team
A multi-disciplinary collaboration
Ester Barinaga – Principal Investigator
Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Lund University, School of Economics and Management. She also holds a Professorship at the Copenhagen Business School. She is interested in concepts and strategies that may help us better design organizations aiming at building more inclusive cities. She has previously worked with microfinance and collective mural art as methods to empower communities and build the city from below. Her current work focuses on community currencies as a method to build more resilient communities and more inclusive cities.
Michael Oloko –Co Principal Investigator
Senior lecturer and researcher at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST). He has PhD. Agricultural Engineering (Egerton University), MSc.in Water Resources Engineering (University of Dar es Salaam) and BSc in Agricultural Engineering-Egerton University. His current research interests include; environmental engineering, integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), Renewable Energy Technology, Urban Agriculture and Waste Management within Informal Settlements. He is a Co-Principal Researcher in the GFIIEG .
Maria José Zapata Campos
Associate professor, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg
Maureen Achieng– Project Coordinator
Bachelor’s of Arts Degree with a major in Sociology and minors in Anthropology and Information Technology. Maureen also holds a Diploma in Business Technical Education Program (BTEP) – Tourism Management option from the Technical University of Kenya (TUK) with vast experience in community development activities in Kenya and Somalia.
Richard Kiaka– Post Doctoral Reseacher
He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology (Universität Hamburg), MSc. in International Development Studies (Wagenigen University) and BSc. in Environmental Studies and Community Development (Kenyatta University). He has interest in research that explores institutional dynamics in community resource governance. Richard is experienced in participatory research and learning.
John Chweya Xavier–Field Officer
BA in Communication and Mass Media with IT, part-time student in Maseno University and a multimedia storyteller with text, video and photographs.