Southern Voice is pleased to announce its new Chair. Dr Rose Ngugi, Executive Director of the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), will be the new head of the Steering Committee.

“These are crucial times in the sustainable development debate and I am excited to steer Southern Voice’s role in it. A network like this one offers timely and factual information from professionals from the Global South. In the post-pandemic world, their voices and knowledge are vital”, says Dr Rose Ngugi, new Southern Voice Chair.

Dr Ngugi has published widely and her research interests are in public policy, financial sector, investments, reforms and institutional issues. She holds a PhD from the Business School Birmingham University, UK, specialising in Financial Markets, and a Master’s and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. She was a Senior Advisor in the Office of Executive Director, Africa Group 1 of the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C. Dr Ngugi has been a member of the Central Bank of Kenya and has vast teaching experience at the University of Nairobi-School of Economics.

She follows in the footsteps of Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya (CPD), Bangladesh, founding Chair of the network. His work was instrumental in growing the reputation and reach of this think tank community. The network is eternally grateful for Dr Bhattacharya’s vision to bring together researchers across the Global South under one mission.

“We are delighted to welcome Rose as our new Chair. I look forward to working with her to inform the challenges ahead with Southern perspectives. As we are preparing the second edition of our State of the SDGs report and engaging in a strategic global policy process on sustainable development, her guidance will be pivotal”, says Andrea Ordóñez, Director of Southern Voice, a network of 59 think tanks from the Global South.

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