Chebet Maikut

Chebet Maikut

Synergos Senior Fellow (deceased)

Chebet Maikut was a Synergos Senior Fellow. He passed away in October 2012, while serving as Commissioner at the Climate Change Department in the Ministry of Water and Environment of Uganda.

Educated at Makerere University, Uganda, and Lincoln University, New Zealand, Chebet held degrees in forestry and natural resources management and worked tirelessly on issues including poverty reduction and rural development, natural resources and environmental issues, HIV/AIDS, education, human rights and democracy.

Chebet also served as the President and Vice President of the East African Farmers Federation and President of the Uganda National Farmers Federation. He also served as a member of the Ugandan Parliament and of the Constituent Assembly that established Uganda’s post-independence Constitution, as well as on DuPont’s Biotechnology Advisory Panel.

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