Alice Ruhweza

Since July 2019, Alice has served as Regional Director for Africa at WWF. She ensures the organisation is highly influential, can shape Africa’s sustainability agenda domestically and globally and effectively deliver its global conservation priorities to achieve conservation impact within the WWF network.

Alice has led various conservation, and environmental portfolios, including; Conservation International (CI), where she progressed from Executive Director of the Vital Signs Programme to Interim Vice President of Sustainable Production, and finally Vice President of Programs and Partnerships. Before this, Alice led the UNDP’s Global Environment Finance Unit in South Africa for six years.

A multicultural leader, Alice has worked across the globe in different capacities for organisations such as the National Environment Management Authority in Uganda, Forest Trends (USA), Sprint Corporation (USA), as a consultant for the World Bank, UNEP Economics and Trade Branch, the UNFCCC Secretariat, the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development, and the Institute for European Environmental Policy. Her duties included a wide range of issues ranging from the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, Trade and the Environment, Environmental Governance, Innovative Finance and many more.

Alice holds a Bachelors in Social Sciences from Makerere University (Uganda), and a Masters in Agricultural and Applied Economics from University of Wisconsin (USA). Alice is an Aspen New Voices Fellow, a Henry Arnhold Conservation Fellow and a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar.

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