Dr. Tusiime Felly Mugizi is the CBIT Project Manager.  She has extensive knowledge and a broad work experience in biodiversity conservation, pollution-GHG sources and sinks, climate change-NDC, SDGs, land degradation and environmental management. She has previously worked as the Biophysical Technical Manager and Senior Botanist at AfrII responsible for direct supervision, leadership and management of biophysical data collection under the Vital Signs Uganda project.

Prior to this job, she worked as a part-time lecturer at Makerere, Kyambogo and Gulu Universities. She has also worked as a Research Officer of biodiversity and environment at prestigious institutions in Uganda and abroad and has done extensive biodiversity research in savannah grassland and woodlands, wetlands, forests and afro-alpine ecosystems in Eastern Africa.

She holds a joint Doctorate in Environmental Management from Makerere University Uganda and University of Oslo, Norway, a joint Master of Science in Botany from Makerere University Uganda and Imperial College London UK and a Bachelor of Science degree from Makerere University. Felly has additional training in Bryophyte Taxonomy from NHM London UK, Tropical plants identification from The Royal Botanical Gardens Kew UK, DNA extraction and AFLP analyses-NHM University of Oslo Norway; Basic Principles of Vital Signs Agricultural and Environmental Monitoring by Conservation International and the Earth Institute of Columbia University USA, and Trend.Earth environment monitoring by Conservation International and Lund University USA