Dr. Castro N Gichuki has a PhD in Agricultural Economics and Management from Nanjing Agricultural University and MSc and BSc degree in Community Studies and Extension from Egerton University. Also, he was a research fellow at the Institute for Money Technology & Financial Inclusion (University of California Irvine).
He has undertaken research in East Africa in the areas offinancial inclusion and rural development, food safety, agricultural marketing and production, agricultural technologies adoption, agricultural policy evaluation,rural micro credits and micro entrepreneurship. He has published widely in peer reviewed journal articles and won research grants. Castro has experience in conducting qualitative, quantitative research, monitoring and evaluation. Currently he is a senior research consultant at AGRISPEC research & consultancy and adjunct lecturer at the Department of Applied Development Community Studies, Egerton University.
At Eider Africa Limited Dr. Castro advises on monitoring and evaluation frameworks.