Dr Julius Gatune is a Senior Researcher and Policy Advisor with the African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET). He researches and advices governments across Africa on issues of economic transformation.  His areas of focus include: Foresight and future trends modelling, agricultural value chains and extractive resources management and institutional strengthening. 

He is currently leading a study on 4th Industrial revolution and the future of work in Africa. He was part of the team that wrote the recently launched African Transformation Report II: Agriculture Powering Africa’s Economic Transformation. He has led over 30 agricultural value chains study across Africa countries. He is also supporting the International Resource Panel of United Nations Environment in developing a global governance framework to help extractive resources support Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He has been involved in advising on extractive resources management Zambia, Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso. He has led a 3 year West Africa Trends monitoring exercise to understand the emerging trends in the region and their implications to the poor and excluded. He has also been part of an effort to map the future of Middle East and North Africa. 

Prior to joining ACET Dr. Gatune worked at McKinsey & Co at Johannesburg South Africa office as a management consultant.  He also worked at the Frederick S. Pardee Centre for Study Longer Range Futures at Boston University and the Frederick S Pardee Centre for International Futures at the University of Denver working on a number of projects that that looked explored the drivers of futures of Africa. He has a Ph. D in Policy Analysis for the Pardee RAND Graduate School and Masters in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and an MBA from the University of Nairobi.

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