Eunice Wangari has worked on Environmental, Social, Governance aspects of Sustainability, and on Gender, Climate and Sustainable Finance issues in the food and agriculture, pastoralism, finance, and development sectors for nearly 15 years, in both developing and developed countries.

Eunice joined IDS in September 2018 as a doctoral researcher at the resource politics and environmental change cluster. Her current work is on the intersection of climate adaptation and social differentiation in pastoralist economies in Kenya. This research is part of a wider European Union Horizon2020 project, named Wellbeing Ecology Gender cOmmunity – Innovative Training Network (WEGO-ITN), which aims to map out strategies of resilience and sustainability in communities. She also sits in climate action and sustainability advisory panels, the union council, and tutors master students.

Previously, she was a visiting researcher based at the Centre for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP) at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in the USA. Where she worked on a UNDP commissioned project on how additionality informs adaptation finance. She also worked at the Co-operative Bank of Kenya in various capacities in the line of business development for 9 years. Eunice has also done sustainability and finance consultancies for organizations like United Nations division for sustainable development, Chakula BV, the Better Poverty Eradication Organization.

She holds a Master of Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University and Research, in the Netherlands, Master in Business Administration, from Jomo-Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya and Bachelor of Environmental Studies, from Kenyatta University in Kenya.