Governing Body Research Fellow
Kennedy Mbeva is a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) and Research Fellow and Member of the Governing Body, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
His research focuses on the governance of global catastrophic risk. Dr Mbeva has contributed to high-profile UN reports such as the IPCC AR6 and the Adaptation Gap Report and served on Kenya’s delegation to the UN Climate Change negotiations. A Kenyan national, he holds a PhD in International Relations (distinction) from the University of Melbourne and has studied and worked in Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His latest book is “Africa’s Right to Development in a Climate-Constrained World” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, co-authored).
