Dr Mzime Ndebele-Murisa is an ecologist with extensive experience in biodiversity and conservation, natural resources management, environmental change analysis – particularly climate trend analyses and modelling – aquatic and wildlife ecology, and climate adaptation. She is a Program Specialist at START International where her current projects include FRACTAL and the Education Partnership for Innovation in Communities (EPIC). She is passionate about using participatory, inclusive and bottom-up approaches to solve environmental climate change issues. She has worked with environmental management, research and policy organizations in Africa and beyond, as well as various networks. She was previously based at Chinhoyi University of Technology and the University of Zimbabwe. She has a PhD from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, an MSc in Tropical Resource Ecology and a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Zimbabwe.
