David SIRIRI 

David SIRIRI is an agronomist, agricultural policy and rural development expert currently working as Country Director for Uganda of Millennium Promise Alliance, a US-based international not-for-profit organization working to support African Governments achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

In this role, he superintends over the technical implementation of the Local Economic Growth Support (LEGS) project in the Ministry of Local Government and the Drylands Integrated Development Project in Karamoja domiciled in the Office of the Prime Minister. The two projects have a combined budget in excess of USD 67,000,000 for investments in local economic development, livelihood improvement and environmental conservation. Prior to this, David was Advisor to the Executive Director of the African Development Bank Group (based at AfDB HQs in Abidjan, Ivory Coast) for the Eastern Africa Constituency representing Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda on the Board of Directors. 

Mr. Siriri served as Science Coordinator and Team Leader of the UNDP Millennium Villages Project (2006 to 2011) and as Country Coordinator for Millennium Promise Alliance (2012 to 2015). In these roles, he coordinated the implementation of the Millennium Villages Projects (MVP I and MVP II). From 2002 to 2006, he served as a Research Scientist with the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) as well as Team Leader of the ICRAF field offices in SW Uganda while conducting research on the economic, agronomic and ecological potential of various agricultural land use systems. He is credited for introducing and disseminating apple growing in the Kigezi highlands of Western Uganda and engineering the won-farm planting of over 5 million trees for food, income, medicine, and natural resource management. Between 1998 and 2001, he served as a Research Officer with the African Research Network for Agroforestry (AFRENA) implemented by the Forestry Resources Research Institute of the National Agricultural Research Organization of Uganda. 

Mr. Siriri a BSc. Agriculture from Makerere University, Uganda; MSc. Soil Science from Makerere University; and a PhD in Agricultural Sciences from Makerere University with split-site studies at the University of Nottingham (UK) as a Commonwealth scholar of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. He has published ten (10) original papers in peer-reviewed international journals and eight (8) articles in conference proceedings in the fields of agronomy, resource economics, natural resource management, and rural development. He has also written extension manuals for dissemination of agricultural and natural resource management interventions. He is a member of various international research and development professional associations and received in 2001 an award of research excellence from the African Crop Science Society meeting in Lagos, Nigeria.