Mithika Mwenda

Mithika Mwenda has been Executive director for Pan African Climate Justice Alliance for more than 10 years. He has extensive experience as a climate change policy advocate and was named most influential people in Climate Change Policy 2019,. Previously he worked as a Climate Change Officer with the All Africa Conference Churches and Climate Network Africa. Before this, he worked and volunteered in numerous governance and human rights, as well as democracy organisations in Kenya. He was a Co-Convener of the National Convention Executive Council in the 2000s, which premiered and spearheaded the agitation for the new constitution of Kenya, 2010 constitution of Kenya.

Mithika Mwenda's efforts as a climate change activist have been recognised for influencing climate change policies in Kenya and other African countries. As PACJA Executive Director, Mithika Mwenda was selected for the Sierra Club's Earth Care Award 2019 for his contribution to international environmental protection and conservation.

Mithika Mwenda was born in 1973 in Meru County, Kenya. His father, Mzee Mwenda, was Meru from Meru County. Mithika studied at Moi University where he was a student leader, before joining Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology for postgraduate studies in public policy analysis. Mwenda, a Ph.D student at Wits School of Governance, represents the African civil society in the committee of the World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, and also chairs the Collaboration Platform of Climate Research for Development in Africa. He was named among 100 most influential people in climate change policy in the world.