Philip is a research associate at the Kula Vyema Centre of Food Economics. He holds an MSc. in Agricultural Economics from Kenyatta University, Kenya, and a Postgraduate Certificate on Food Chains in Agriculture from Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He has over 5 years of research experience in research designing, programming research tools in Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI) – ODK and SurveyCTO, training of survey enumerators, data collection as an enumerator (including online surveys), supervising surveys, data cleaning, data analysis, reporting, presentation and writing manuscripts. He conducts data analysis using STATA and SPSS and has training in R. He has published research papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented study results at international conferences.

Philip has previously worked with various organizations including the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mount Kenya University (MKU)/University of Hull (UH), Effective IPM Association (EIPMA), National Museums of Kenya (NMK). He is a regular member of the African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE).