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Gideon Chikamai, Heavy-Duty Vehicles Lead for East Africa at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)Freight Forum speaker
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Gideon
Chikamai

Heavy-Duty Vehicles Lead for East Africa

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

RepresentingUNEP
Biography

Decarbonising freight and transport corridors.

Supporting cleaner freight technologies, electric trucks and green-corridor strategies across East Africa.

Gideon Chikamai is an economist and transport-policy specialist with more than 14 years of experience in transport policy, planning, regulation and regional integration across Africa.

He previously served as an Economist in Kenya's State Department for Transport and later as Deputy Director, Transport Policy and Planning at the Northern Corridor Transit and Transport Coordination Authority.

At UNEP, Gideon supports green-freight and corridor-decarbonisation programmes and serves as Heavy-Duty Vehicles Lead for East Africa, working on cleaner freight technologies, electric freight, emissions modelling and green-freight strategies.

01Heavy-Duty Vehicles
02Green Freight
03Corridor Decarbonisation
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