Maurice Mutisya is the Director of Research at Zizi Afrique Foundation. He will deputize the Executive Director on matters of research and evidence, head the Research and Evidence Pillar, manage all data in the organization and coordinate all evidence sharing products and efforts. He is joining Zizi after an outstanding 15-years’ career at the African Population & Health Research Centre (APHRC), where he lately served as an associate research scientist, responsible for project management, budgeting and leadership, fundraising, and policy analysis in the field of education and health. Besides, he led the urban education and early childhood development and education initiatives – with a focus on marginalized populations including the urban poor and the pastoralists. Maurice holds a PhD in Public Health from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, an MSc. in Population-based Field Epidemiology from the same university and a BSc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya.