With over a decade of international, regional and community work experience, Nkatha Mercy is a VLIR-UOS Scholar, an Erasmus Lifelong Fellow and a finalist for President Obama’s flagship YALI Initiative – Civic Leadership. She holds a Master of Science in Governance and Development from the Institute of Development Policy and Management, Antwerp University Belgium, a post-graduate certificate on the Politics and Economics of Aid awarded by a consortium of six European universities, and a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from Kenyatta University, Kenya. Nkatha’s research interests lie in analyzing governance challenges, how they intersect vertically and horizontally across multiple governance levels and how these intersections impact global development in as far as it concerns human capabilities and well-being.