Achiba Gargule is a human geographer focusing on natural resources governance, specializing in development policy, land-rights inequities, and frontier transformations. Achiba’s research and operational engagement have focused on all aspects of resource governance in Africa’s drylands, community land policy, and collective tenure security related to pastoral rangelands; the role of natural resources, communities, and institutions in climate change, as well as large scale land investments and their impact on land tenure, including social and environmental sustainability. Achiba currently serves as a Research coordinator with the Feinstein International Centre at Tufts University. Until recently, Achiba was a senior adviser at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Norway working on CMI`s Anti-corruption Resource Center U4 on natural resource corruption with the USAID-funded Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) Project. Before joining CMI, Achiba was a Governance and Policy Adviser with USAID’s Kenya Livestock Markets System (LMS) Activity implemented by ACDIVOCA. Achiba has also previously held policy research & development, advocacy, and engagement positions with Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in East Africa, Oxfam G.B., Oxfam International, and the Government of Kenya. Achiba is a Kenyan national with a Ph.D. in Geography and Sustainable Development from the University of Bern, an M.A. in International Political Economy from Newcastle University, and a B.A. in Land Economics from the University of Nairobi.