Alaka Lugonzo

Alaka Lugonzo is a nonresident fellow at the Global South Policy Hub. She is a seasoned programme management professional with over eleven years of experience working at the intersection of community and stakeholder engagement, law, policy, advocacy, gender, business and human rights, and environmental justice within the energy and extractives sectors. Her work spans oil, gas, and mining, with a strong focus on just transition and climate justice.

Over the course of her career, Alaka has led and supported strategic initiatives that strengthen accountability and responsible resource governance across Africa. Her expertise includes project management, strategic partnerships, resource mobilization, and policy engagement. She has extensive experience collaborating with development organizations, donors, governments, extractive industry actors, civil society organizations, coalitions, and regional networks to advance equitable and sustainable approaches to natural resource governance.

Alaka is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Energy Law and Policy from the University of Dundee in Scotland. She also holds an Executive Certificate in Oil, Gas and Mining Governance from the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.

She has also contributed to academic discourse on energy transitions in Africa and authored the chapter “Gender Justice in the Energy Transition Era: Exploring Gender and Technology in the Extractives Sector” in the book Energy Transitions and the Future of the African Energy Sector: Law, Policy and Governance.

Alaka currently serves as Partnerships Lead – Africa at Global Witness, where she works at the intersection of transition minerals and climate justice, supporting collaboration between civil society actors and global stakeholders to promote a responsible and equitable energy transition.