Susan Chomba
Director of Vital Landscapes
WRI Africa
Susan Chomba leads WRI Africa' s work on forests, food systems and people which includes forest landscape restoration, sustainable agriculture/food systems and thriving rural livelihoods in Africa.
Susan is a scientist with over 15 years of research and development experience in Africa. She previously led the Regreening Africa Programme at CIFOR-ICRAF, whose primary objective was to restore degraded lands by scaling up proven and cost-effective technologies and practices across eight countries in Africa: Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Niger, Ghana, Mali and Senegal. She has been instrumental in setting the agenda for landscape restoration through local, national and global platforms.
She is a member of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and an associate editor for political ecology for the international journal, Frontiers in Human Dynamics.
