Kennedy Mbeva (PhD) is a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, at the University of Cambridge. He previously served as a  Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Dr Mbeva’s research is on the governance of global catastrophic risk, focusing on geoeconomics and catastrophic climate change.

Dr Mbeva has contributed to high-profile UN scientific reports such as the IPCC AR6 and the Adaptation Gap Report and served on Kenya’s official delegation to the UN Climate Change negotiations. A Kenyan national, he holds a PhD in International Relations (distinction) from the University of Melbourne, and has studied and worked in several continents, including Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His latest book is Africa’s Right to Development in a Climate-Constrained World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, co-authored).