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Edward Mungai is the current Chief Executive Officer at Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC). Edward is an author, founder and senior executive. He has produced sustained revenue and socio-ecological capital for over 250 clean-tech enterprises in Kenya as part of his achievements in impact investments, Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Sustainability Research and Business Advisory. Prior to his work at KCIC, Edward Mungai worked as the Head of Regional Office (East and Central Africa) at Danish International Investment Fund (IFU) in Nairobi.

Mungai also served as the Investment Manager at IFU in Copenhagen. He is a former Manager in Corporate Finance at KPMG East Africa. Edward Mungai is currently undertaking a PhD in Business Management on Environmental Sustainability at Strathmore University Business School, Kenya. He holds an Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management from Scandinavian International Management Institute in Denmark, a BBM in Accounting and Finance from Moi University in Kenya and he has completed the Chartered Finance Analyst Level II exams from CFA Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia USA.

Among his list of awards includes Edward Mungai being a Six Star Major World Marathoner, was Voted as top 40 under 40 people creating sustainable impact in Kenya, awarded by CBS-SIMI as one of the best strategy projects innovators in the MBA class of 2009-2010, voted among the top inspirational CEOs in Kenya in 2019 and appointed as a representative of DANIDA in the African Enterprise Challenge Fund Investment committee.

Edward Mungai is also an Eisenhower Fellow, a DANIDA Fellow and is the founder of Inspire Leadership. He is a keynote speaker on corporate sustainability and has spoken at various global summits around the world such as the Climate Change Conference in Bonn Germany 2017; International Trade Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development; World Economic Forum among others. He is a published author of the book “Impact Investing in Africa”.

More about Edward can be found on www.edwardmungai.com

Edward Mungai list of specializations:

Operations Management, Strategic Planning, Leadership Development, Research Economic & Financial Modelling, Project Management, Strategic partnerships Clean-tech Innovations, Business Advisory, Sustainability Entrepreneurship, Fund Mobilization, Change Management, Sustainability Management Investment management.

Selected Achievement Highlights for Edward Mungai


 * Led the establishment of the first incubation center for clean-tech enterprises in Africa. Since 2012, over 248 clean-tech enterprises have been successfully incubated, 136 green enterprises achieving commercialization, over USD 64.5 Million mobilized, more than 9,000 sustainable jobs created, over 450,000 green consumers served, and over 220,000 tons of carbon dioxide mitigated.


 * Led the establishment of Kenya Climate Ventures with a seed capital of USD 3,200,000; around USD 1,200,000 has been invested into clean-tech enterprises in the agribusiness, water management, and renewable energy sectors.


 * Successfully doubled the Danish International Investment Fund’s (IFU) investment portfolio in East and Central Africa from USD25,000,000 to over USD50,000,000 in less than two years.


 * Developed a transformative microfinance funding model which has been implemented in Africa, Asia, and Latin America attracting funding of up to USD 90 million.