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Bishop Garden Towers

Job Titles:
  • Bishop Road, Mezzanine Floor

DOMINIQUE NYASENTE

Job Titles:
  • Research Manager
<strong>Previous work history:</strong>2019- Sept 12th 2020: Senior Research Executive at Nielsen leading Telco research2013 -2019: Research Executive at Ipsos Kenya and Mozambique (market and social research)<strong>Education:</strong> <ol> <li>Science Mathematics-Catholic University of Eastern Africa</li> </ol>

ELLI CHANZU

Job Titles:
  • Research Director
<strong>Previous work history:</strong>2019- Sept 12<sup>th</sup> 2020: Research Manager at Nielsen leading FMCG and PD&S research2017-2019: Senior Research Analyst at Sagaci Research (market and social research)2013-2017: Research Executive and field coordinator at Ipsos Kenya<strong>Education:</strong> <ol> <li>Economics (Policy and management)-Kenyatta University (2020)</li> <li>Economics and Finance-Kenyatta University (2013)</li> </ol>

EUGENE MEIGE

Job Titles:
  • Field Manager
<strong>Previous work history:</strong>2019- 2020: Field Manager at Ipsos Kenya2017-2019: Operations manager at Ipsos Tanzania2015-2016: Field manager at Ipsos Zambia2011-2014: Field coordinator at Ipsos Kenya<strong>Education:</strong> <ol> <li>Business Information Technology-Catholic University of Eastern Africa</li> </ol>

RAPHAEL KIOGE

Job Titles:
  • Head Quality Control and Operations
<strong>Previous work history:</strong>2018- 2020: Assistant manager operations (Quality Control)2014-2018: Quality Control executive at Ipsos Kenya2013-2014: Field coordinator at Ipsos Kenya<strong>Education:</strong>B. Actuarial science-Jomo Kenyatta MAST is an innovative, client-focused organization providing research services in East Africa.

THOMAS P. WOLF

Job Titles:
  • Technical Advisor
Dr. Wolf has over 35 years of research and work experience in East Africa, beginning with three years as a US Peace Corps Volunteer secondary school teacher in Kenya. He subsequently worked as a trainer for the Danish Volunteer Service in Tanzania, following which he obtained an M.A. in African Studies at Ohio University, and a doctorate in Comparative Politics, which he completed at the University of Sussex (UK). His dissertation, based on three years of field research, examined political leadership at the Kenya Coast. Dr. Wolf subsequently served as a Lecturer in the Dept. of Government at the University of Nairobi and as an Advisor in the Democracy/Governance Office at USAID-Kenya. Since 2002 he has been a self-employed Research Consultant who has been working closely with MAST research limited. In 2004, after working on Kenya's first Afro barometer survey, he began consulting for The Steadman Group, for whom (and subsequently for Synovate and Ipsos before leaving in April 2019). He has participated as Lead or Co-Consultant in various research and consultancy projects, including those for Transparency International-Kenya, The Ford Foundation, The Westminster Foundation for Democracy, DANIDA, USAID, UNDP, Nation Media Group and the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs (in Kenya and Uganda). He was in charge of national omnibus surveys at Ipsos, which includes questionnaire design, data analysis, and public presentations, as well as capacity-building training of media practitioner. Experience & Activities <strong>Previous work history:</strong>2004-2019: Steadman/Synovate/Ipsos: Research consultant1996-2001: Democracy/Governance Advisor, USAID1994-1996: Kenya Study Abroad Director, Kalamazoo College1988-1994: Lecturer, Dept. of Govt., University of Nairobi<strong>Education:</strong>Ph.D in Comparative Politics/University of Sussex, UK, 1985