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Elizabeth Chadri

Program Officer, Conservation and Sustainable Development (Africa)

Elizabeth Chadri is a Program Officer in Conservation & Sustainable Development.

She joined the Foundation in 2003 and is responsible for grantmaking in Africa.

Chadri served as the first Manager of the African Wildlife Foundation's (AWF) White River Conservation Centre in South Africa from 2000 to 2002. Prior to that she was the Director in Training, Institutional Development & Education at AWF from 1997 to 2000. Chadri worked at AWF from 1994 until her latest appointment as Head of the Kampala Conservation Centre. She has extensive experience managing institutional development projects and capacity building programs in East, Central and Southern Africa. Prior to joining AWF, Chadri was a Program Officer at the Wildlife Clubs of Kenya and a biology teacher.

Chadri has a MSc. in Training and Human Resource Management from Leicester University in the United Kingdom, and a Master of Education degree from Kenyatta University, Kenya. Her undergraduate degree is in Zoology from the University of Nairobi, Kenya.