Stella Kiwango

Stella Yinza Kiwango recently  joined  the World Agroforestry Centre in February 2012 as Director of Administration responsible for overseeing the administrative operations of the Centre as well as Human Resources.

With over twenty years of experience in similar capacities in both the public and private sectors, Stella joins the Centre from Vodacom Tanzania, where her major contribution was in the area of Human Resources and organizational capacity building. Prior to that, she worked with BP Tanzania, leading the Human Resources function in Tanzania and also part of a diverse global and regional team engaged in the harmonization of global HR policies and procedures across the company.

Before that, Stella started her career with the National Board of Accountants and Auditors where, as Administrative and Personnel Manager, she was instrumental to the institution's development and was a forerunner in enabling the organization to solicit and implement donor funded  technical assistance projects related, among other areas, to administrative and human capital capacity building.

Stella holds a Master's and Postgraduate qualification in Economics and Social Studies from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, where she majored in Development Administration.