Mr Ibrahim Mwathane is a consultant in Surveying and Land Information Management and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Surveying and Photogrammetry from the University of Nairobi and a Masters degree in Cadastre and Land Information Management from the Polytechnic of East London.
Mr Mwathane has had extensive experience in the public sector where he served for 13 years as a field surveyor, quality control officer and a district and provincial office manager. While in the private sector, Mr Mwathane has been involved in consultancy work in surveying and land reform. He has provided advocacy and technical support to Kenya’s land policy formulation process and the continental land policy process.
Mr Mwathane has also served as the Chairman of the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya (ISK). During his tenure, he introduced ISK to national advocacy on matters relating to land reforms and contemporary land issues in the country.
He is the immediate past chair of the KEPSA Land Sector Board, a Director with the Land Development and Governance Institute(see http://www.ldgi.co.ke / http://www.ldgi.org) and the Principal Consultant of Landscape Land Surveyors & Consultants, Nairobi, Kenya.
Mr Mwathane has been twice decorated with Head of State Commendation awards, first in the year 2005 for introducing reforms that greatly influenced the development of the surveying profession in Kenya then in the year 2009 for his efforts to improve service delivery in the land sector in Kenya and in helping in the formulation of the national land policy.
