Our Team

Moses Kulaba

Moses Kulaba is a political economist, Governance, policy and tax law expert, and trained as an economic diplomat with over 15 years of experience. Has researched and written on the subjects of governance, corruption, illicit financial flows, diplomacy, taxation, trade, clean energy and the nexus between Natural resources and development. Prior to joining GEPC, he served as the East Africa’s Regional Manager of the Natural Resources Governance Institute (NRGI), based in Nairobi, Kenya-where he led and managed NRGI’s Country teams and operations in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, and the Africa Anglophone Hub. Moses provides strategic organization , programs and team leadership, ensuring that GEPC is delivering on its mandate as a development think tank entity.

Ms Beatrice George

Beatrice is a Political scientist with Post Graduate qualifications in Business and Human Resources Management. As a Program and Research Support, Beatrice drives strategic initiatives, pioneering research, and consultancy while supporting training in Human Rights, Human Capital Management, and Resource Governance. Beatrice holds a Master's degree in HR Management and currently pursuing a Doctoral degree in General Management Science. She shares her expertise as a lecturer in Management sciences courses at the National Institute of Transport and the University of Dar es Salaam Business School in Tanzania.

Mr Stephano Aloys 'Aristotle'

A trained political scientist and philosopher, Steve supports program implementation and active engagement with our national networks, leveraging our expertise and influence with in our national constituency of civil society and policy makers. Aloys started his career as a Governance Program Officer at Agenda Participation 2000, before funneling out to hold program and consultancy responsibilities at different institution. He is passionate about democracy and governance.

Fortunatus Mselle

Fortunatus is a trained finance professional and Certified Public Accountant. He started his career as an accountant in the Private sector before combining into the not for profit sector. He has advised and provided financial consultancy to many private and public sector entities. Fortunatus supports our logistics needs, ensuring that our mobilised resources are safe and deployed effectively to deliver their intended purposes with maximum impact.

Mr Costa Pachal Mkama

A high driven and flexible communications professional, with a proven record of delivering creative and innovative coms solution. Provides communications support to the team as a consultant, ensuring that our communication assets and products are produced and delivered effectively reaching our constituency, with maximum impact. Costa is also a long-term communications consultant for clients such as the Foundation for Civil Society (FCS) and some Government of Tanzania Agencies.

Mr Robert Ssuna

Robert is Tax , Trade and Investment Expert with an experience spanning over decade in the public sector, civil society and consultancy. Previously Robert worked for the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA)'s Research and Policy Department. He later transited to the Tax Justice Network Africa, where he served as Tax and International Financial Architecture Policy Lead before moving into private practice. He has a consulted for the World Bank and the EU on Tax policy, DRM , Economic Justice and Rights (EJR) Program, a Multi Country project that was implemented in Uganda and Zambia. Robert is based in Kampala, Uganda.

Lulu O'lang

Lulu is an Economist with a stellar upcoming career in Economic Policy, Public Policy, Research, Analysis and training. Trained at the University of Aberdeen, UK, Lulu started her research career as an Assistant Researcher at REPOA where she worked among others on a NORAD funded Petrol State project and facilitated training of Junior researchers and. Lulu graduated with PhD in Economics from Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan. Her research project was on Process tracing of Environment information disclosure (as a component of ESG) in Mining projects.

Jacob Njama Mokiwa

Jacob supports our Investment and International trade governance work. He is an experienced and motivated International Trade and Investment Lawyer with post graduate training from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Jacob has extensive knowledge of the policy and legal framework and previously served as a Legal Counsel in both the Public and Private sector as a policy and legal advisor in Governance and compliance, Trade and Investment, Environmental, Natural Resources Management and climate change. He has participated in a number of bilateral trade negotiations. He carries over a decade of experience in legal research, consultancy, training, advocacy, monitoring and evaluation and legislative and policy reform.

Gloria Sechambo

Gloria supports our emerging work on gender particularly amplifying on Gender in extractive governance and climate governance. She is a gender, government and social development expert with a career spanning over ten years. Her recent engagement was an Advisor in Social Accountability with GIZ Good Financial Governance Program (GFG) where among others supported CSOs scale on Social Accountability work at local level and strengthening Public Finance Management with Local Government Authorities.. She previously worked the Tanzania Gender Networking Program (TGNP) coordinating research and advocacy for gender budgeting. She is passionate about the nexus between Gender and development and policies are gender unblinded.

Arafat Lesheve

Arafat supports our research and programs work but also responsible for developing our Youth in Governance work, including the newly designed flagship National Essay Competitions and Climate Justice Moot Courts targeting Young people in Higher Institutions of learning. He is an Energetic Young professional with a starling career spanning over 7 years working in Youth Empowerment for Change. Worked as a Youth lead with USAID and Embassy of Ireland projects and consulted for Africa Union, Africa Youth Foundation and Winrock International. Arafat is an alumnus of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) and currently volunteering appointed serves as the National Youth Envoy of Tanzania at the Commonwealth Youth Council, under the Prime Minister’s Office,. He is also a Founder of the Tanzania Emerging Youth Awards Initiative. At such a Young Age Arafat has accomplished many than of us can dream of. He is a trained and certified UN SDG champion, passionate about Youth and Development.

Eva Kihupi

Eva is a lawyer and an upcoming young professional, interested in the nexus between governance, human rights and development. She has been passionate about the role of young people in governance and has participated in a number of spaces, including Young Africa Leadership Initiative (YALI) and the UN Model Assembly in Arusha. Eva supports our research and programs team, deploying her professional knowledge and skills to ensure that our work is delivered with maximum satisfaction and impact. She is tasked in contributing to the development of our upcoming young people in governance programs such as the National Essay Competitions and Moot Courts for young people in Higher Institutions and advancing the discourse, interaction of young people in the nexus between Climate Justice and Indigenous communities. She also supports the other governance. She is a writer and a quick learner.

Roger Vutsoro

Roger supports our work on Mineral governance work with a focus on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region. He is an experienced governance and anti corruption professional has dedicated most of his time strengthening the governance of the extractive sector. He has served with a number of local and international organisations, including the Natural Resources Governance Institute where he served as the Country Officer for the DRC. He is currently engaged with an International Team working on Responsible Minerals and Trade in the DRC. He is based in Kinshasa, DRC

Ng'homange Merkiad

Ng’homange Merkiad is a trainer, researcher and policy analyst working as an academician and expert of public administration and public policy, with a rising career in research and academia spanning over a decade. Merkiad supports our research, policy analysis and training work with local governments on, decentralization , local accountability, climate governance and skilling. He graduated with a BA in Public Administration and Public Service Management, before mastering in Research and Public Policy at the University of Dar es Salaam. He currently at Lectures at the Local Government Training Institute (LGTI) in Dodoma, where he has served as a Head of Department – Human Resources Management as well as Coordinator of Quality Assurance and Control. Has participated in USAID funded projects of Public Sector System Strengthening (PS3). Has facilitated Local Government Authorities in Tanzania to enhance effective implementation of Decentralization by Devolution also researched on administrative issues and local governance issues. His recent research was an Evaluation of the Open Performance Review and Appraisal System (OPRAS) in Tanzania's public service. Merkiad blends his academic and research work with connections to the local community where he serves as an ordained church elder with the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Tanzania.

Supports our Programs strategic planning and development, reporting and fundraising, ensuring that our programs are well structured and strategically aligned to deliver on our mission and vision. He is responsible for fundraising, mapping out potential donors and new funding pipelines and ensuring that GEPC is successfully tapping into these funding and expanding it donor and resource base. Maintains good relationship with our back donors, ensuring we are delivering on their expectations.

Responsible for all our protocol needs, ensuring that our guests and clients are received and served with courtesy . She also caters for our general administration of the hub center, ensuring our team has the top-notch environment to perform their functions.

A young but astute, curious and energetic upcoming professional in her final under graduate studies. She supports our research and programs teams, working and learning under tutelage of her experienced colleagues. She is keen on applying her newly acquired skills but interested in understanding the contradictions around global governance and development.