{"id":63010,"date":"2016-01-28T12:31:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T10:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/kaddu-sebunya-elected-president-of-african-wildlife-foundation\/"},"modified":"2016-01-28T12:31:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T10:31:23","slug":"kaddu-sebunya-elected-president-of-african-wildlife-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/kaddu-sebunya-elected-president-of-african-wildlife-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaddu Sebunya Elected President of African Wildlife Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> NAIROBI, Kenya, January 28, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.awf.org\/\">www.AWF.org<\/a>) announced today it has elected Ugandan native Kaddu Kiwe Sebunya to serve as its new President. Sebunya will focus on advancing a clear policy agenda for wildlife as part of Africa\u2019s future, ensuring the continent\u2019s blueprint for development and growth includes space and protections for Africa\u2019s natural heritage.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p>\u201cI am excited to be stepping into the role of president at a time when Africa\u2019s economies are surging, and when important decisions are being made as to how Africa should manage its natural resources responsibly and with accountability,\u201d said Sebunya. \u201cThe continent is undergoing a profound change, and we must help to guide this change so it benefits Africa\u2019s people <em>and<\/em> wildlife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Sebunya began his career serving as a project manager with WaterAid and as a relief program officer with Oxfam UK. Beginning with his post as the Associate Director for the United States Peace Corps in Uganda, Sebunya\u2019s career began to focus more on conservation. He later served as a country program coordinator with the World Conservation Union\u2014now the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN\u2014and as a senior policy and planning advisor for Conservation International.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>In 2006, Sebunya moved to Washington, DC and became AWF\u2019s Director of Programs. He developed and implemented a legislative program to engage U.S. lawmakers on issues affecting conservation and development in Africa. In 2013, he became Chief of Party for the USAID\/Uganda Biodiversity Program before transitioning to AWF\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Sebunya received his Bachelor\u2019s degree in Social and Political Science from Uganda\u2019s Makerere University and a Masters of Science degree in Sustainable Resource Management and Policy from London\u2019s Imperial College. He also holds a Master of Arts degree in Law, Policy and Diplomacy from Tufts University\u2019s The Fletcher School.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, January 28, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) (www.AWF.org) announced today it has elected Ugandan native Kaddu Kiwe Sebunya to serve as its new President. Sebunya will focus on advancing a clear policy agenda for wildlife as part of Africa\u2019s future, ensuring the continent\u2019s blueprint for development and growth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-63010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}