Denis Kioko is a social scientist with over 15 years in policy, advocacy, and diplomacy combining both managerial and technical leadership in development and humanitarian contexts. He has a deep appreciation of the intersection between power, ideologies, and systems. He possesses both lived and professional experience in shifting more power to local actors through localisation and decolonisation initiatives. His expertise spans across a wide spectrum of action, from the grassroots level in the field directly with local actors, to policymaking, high-level political engagement, and intergovernmental processes at UN headquarters.