Tibesigwa, Byela

Byela Tibesigwa is a senior research fellow. She holds a PhD Economics from the University of Cape Town; and MA and BA Economics from the University of Botswana. Her current research work focuses on ecosystem services, climate change and agriculture and their interaction on poverty, well-being and gender inequalities in developing countries. Byela is currently the Ecosystem Services Accounting for Development (ESAfD) working group representative for Tanzania. ESAfD is managed by the Environment for Development Initiative and Swedish EPA (Naturvårdsverket).

Expertise/Research area:

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Health Economics
Development Economics