Dr Jane A. Dwasi is the Director, Legal Affairs & Regulatory Compliance advising SPH’s business stakeholders on a broad range of legal matters while providing legal advice and support to all related stages of E.P.C. Contract negotiations and matters. She is further in charge of mitigating the company’s legal risk when entering into E.P.C. contracts while ensuring compliance of all concluded E.P.C. contracts with the applicable legislation, basic title documents under the projects and corporate standards. Dr Dwasi is the bridge coordinating with external legal counsel in the various local jurisdictions where SPH has engagements, at the same time providing legal support in litigation cases and acting as the intermediary between the various client’s project managers and the external litigators.

Dr Dwasi is currently a Professor of Law (Senior Lecturer) with the University of Nairobi, School of Law from 2002 to date, as well as a consultant with Nuclear Power and Energy Agency (NuPEA); her other experience areas include:- Chairperson/Principal Judge with the National Environment Tribunal, Kenya (2013-2018); Member/Part-time Judge with the National Environment Tribunal, Kenya (2003-2013); Lead Environmental Impact Assessment (E.I.A.) Expert with Cure International Children’s Hospital (2014); Consultant – Legislative Drafting – Mining Bill with Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, Kenya (2009-2012); Lead Expert, Environmental Impact Assessment with Bethesda Traders, Kenya (2013); Consultant with Ministry of Gender, Children’s Services, Culture and Development (2008-2009); Consultant with African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF-Kenya Country Office)- and the East African Community (E.A.C.)-(2006-2007); Consultant with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Division of Policy Development and Law, Nairobi (2003-2005); Consultant with Africa Bio-diversity Collaborative Group (ABCG), Washington, D.C.USA (2002).; Legal Officer and subsequently, Consultant with World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C. U.S.A. (2001-2002); Visiting Scholar with Environmental Law Institute, Washington, D.C. U.S.A. (2001); Legal Researcher with United States National Center for Agricultural Law, Research and Information (NCALRI), Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.A. (1996-1997); Attorney (Advocate) with M/S Mereka & Company – Advocates, Nairobi, Kenya (1995-1996); Attorney (Advocate) with M/S Ocharo & Company – Advocates (1993-1995); having started her legal career as a Legal Researcher with The Kenya Federation of Women Lawyers (1991 -1992)

Dr Dwasi has written several books in the areas of- Freedom of Religion As A Human Right: Opportunities And Challenges in the Era of HIV/AIDS (OCRA-Kenya Publishers, 2010); The Human Right to Work in the Era of H.I.V. and AIDS (Revised Edition, Ocra-Kenya  Publishers, 2010); The Human Right to Work in the Era of H.I.V. and AIDS (Law Africa Publishers, 2009); Jane Dwasi and Judy Oglethorpe, HIV/AIDS and Ecoregion Conservation (Island Press, 2004) (Book article); Jane Dwasi et al., United Nations Environment Programme, A Training Manual on International Environmental Law (2006); Jane A. Dwasi, Carl Bruch & Bruce Myers, Environmental Advocacy Tools: A Citizen’s Action Handbook, Environmental Law Institute, Washington, D.C. (February 2002); Jane A. Dwasi et al., Women and the Criminal Justice System in Kenya, Kenya Law Reform Commission, 1992. Her notable published journals include:- Dwasi Jane, International Takings: Emergence of Takings Litigation in Kenya, Northwest Journal of Environmental Law & Policy, Volume 19, No. 2, 2013; Dwasi Jane, Hope for AIDS Widows, The Lawyer, Issue 99, January 2007; Jane Dwasi and Judy Oglethorpe, HIV/AIDS and Ecoregion Conservation (Island Press, 2004); Jane A. Dwasi, Regulation of Pesticides in Developing Countries, The Environmental Law Reporter, Volume XXXII, Number 1, January 2002; J.A. Dwasi, Kenya, A Study in International Labor Standards and Their Effects on Working Women in Developing Countries: A Case for Integration of Enforcement Issues in the World Bank’s Policies, Wisconsin International Law Journal, Fall, 1999.

Dr. Dwasi has presented several research papers in the international forums mainly;- 1.Turkana Land Purchases in the Wake of Oil Finds, May, 2014; The Role of Kenya’s National Investment Authority in identifying and Allocating Land for Private Investment(2014); Government Restrictions on the Use of Private Land (2010); Degazettement and Denotification of Protected Wildlife Areas in Kenya and Tanzania(2008); Distributional Equity in Relation to Wildlife Resources: The Effectiveness of Benefit-haring and Benefit-derivation Schemes on Nairobi and Tsavo National Park Environments and Adjacent communities(2007); A Strategy Framework for Addressing Gender and Human Rights Issues Which Fuel H.I.V. and Worsen Impacts of H.I.V. and AIDS Among Migrants in East Africa(2006); Impacts of HIV/AIDS on Environment Conservation and Natural Resource Management in sub-Saharan Africa and Existing Coping Strategies: Case Studies of Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe(2003); Possible Impacts of Kenya’s Forestry Policies of Degazettements and Deforestation on Trans-boundary Rivers between Kenya and Tanzania and on Tanzania(2002); Africa’s Environment and Natural Resources: The Role of Environmental Law in Development; Regulation of International Trade in Agricultural Chemicals: Proposal for a Multilateral Approach.; and Community Participation: The Best Approach to the Management of Kenya’s Wildlife.

Dr Dwasi is a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) with University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.; Master of Laws with University of Wisconsin Law School; Master of Laws with University of Arkansas School of Law, Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.A.; Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) (Honors) with University of Nairobi, School of Law, Kenya; Diploma in Law with Kenya School of Law. Her other short training includes:- the International Regulatory Development Partnership of the U.S.A. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (2011); International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria (2011); French Atomic Energy Commission, France (2011); Swedish Nuclear Technology Centre, Sweden (2012); International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna (2012); South Texas Nuclear Power Company, Texas, U.S.A. (2012); Center For Corporate Governance- Mombasa, Kenya (2011); The World Bank Institute and the International Law Institute (2003); among others.