Dr. Joseph Onjala, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Development Studies (IDS). He holds PhD in Environmental Economics from Roskilde University (Denmark). He currently teaches postgraduate courses on Environment and Natural Resources Management and Energy Policy & Planning Methods at IDS. He also teaches PhD classes in Development Economics at the School of Economics (University of Nairobi) and a visiting fellow at the African Economic Research Consortium Collaborative PhD Programme (CPP) JFE.