DR. Susan is our Senior Consultant in international business, Energy and Natural Resources  currently a lecturer at the School of Law, Nkumba University, Uganda, where she is the Research Coordinator and teaches International Law and Environmental Law.

She also serves as a Natural Resources Governance and Rights Specialist at Regenerate Africa, Uganda.

In November 2022, Susan obtained her Doctor of Philosophy Degree from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum, Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), School of Social Sciences, Law and Humanities, University of Dundee, United Kingdom 2022. Her PhD thesis was titled “Just Criticality: A Justice Framework for Critical Minerals Value Chains“.

Susan also holds an LLM in Natural Resource Law and Policy (Distinction) from CEPMLP, University of Dundee, a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre, Kampala, and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from Makerere University, Uganda.

She has previously worked as a research associate in 2022 for the Education for Sustainable Development: Futures Research, funded Project, Institute for Social Sciences Research (ISSR), University of Dundee. She has also worked as a research associate at CEPMLP, where she contributed to two COP26 projects on the energy transition and climate change mitigation and adaptation, funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and UK Aid. She supplemented her studies with internships at the Extractives Hub, CEPMLP and the International Energy Agency (IEA). At the IEA, Office of the Legal Counsel in Paris – France, Susan contributed to two reports on (1) Driving Down Methane Leaks from the Oil and Gas Industry; (2) The role of critical minerals in clean energy transitions.

She has conducted extensive research on climate change issues and natural resource governance. Susan worked as a senior research associate and project of the Women in Energy and Mining Empowerment Program of the ‘African Energy and Mining Management Initiative’ (AEMI), based in Uganda. Over the five years, Susan has conducted interdisciplinary energy, environmental and mining policy research. She analysed data and literature on several topics such as energy justice, the role of critical minerals in global decarbonisation, just transition, energy transition, zero-carbon energy systems, oil and gas, environmental and social governance concerns (ESG), circular economy and climate change adaptation and mitigation. Susan is a member of the Uganda and East African Law Societies and the Energy Institute.