Alice Ruhweza

Alice Ruhweza is Africa Regional Director for WWF. She was former Commissioner. at CoSAI.

Alice joined WWF as Regional Director for Africa in July 2019. Her role is to develop and lead WWF in Africa so that it is highly influential and able to shape the sustainability agenda of Africa domestically and globally. In this leadership position, she is helping to achieve impact on the ground in alignment with WWF’s global conservation priorities.

Prior to WWF, Alice worked for Conservation International, first as Executive Director of the Vital Signs Programme, and as Interim Vice President of Sustainable Production. In her last year at CI, she was promoted to Vice President of Programs and Partnerships. Alice was Team Leader of the Global Environment Finance Unit in Africa for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), worked for the National Environment Management Authority in Uganda, Forest Trends (USA), Sprint Corporation (USA), and as a consultant for the World Bank, UNEP Economics and Trade Branch, the UNFCCC Secretariat, the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development, and the Institute for European Environmental Policy on a wide range of issues.

Alice holds a Masters in Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin (USA) and a Bachelors in Social Sciences from Makerere University (Uganda).