Clarice Mumbua Wambua
Clarice Mumbua Wambua is a Kenyan environmental and energy lawyer who advises governments, multinationals, and impact investors on the legal mechanics of a low-carbon future. She co-founded boutique public-interest firm Kieti Advocates LLP in 2017 and, in 2022, steered its strategic alliance with pan-African giant Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, becoming the Nairobi office’s lead partner for climate, natural-resources, and ESG matters.
Wambua drafts and negotiates power-purchase agreements, green-hydrogen MOUs, REDD+ carbon-credit sales, and biodiversity-offset contracts across East and Central Africa. Recent mandates include structuring Kenya’s first utility-scale solar-plus-storage PPP, advising on a US $180 million mangrove-restoration blue-carbon project in Lamu, and guiding the African Wildlife Foundation on wildlife-corridor easements. She served on the attorney-general’s task force that produced Kenya’s 2023 Climate Change (Carbon Markets) Regulations and currently sits on the National Carbon Registry steering committee.
A graduate of the University of Nairobi (LL.B.) and the University of Dundee’s Centre for Energy, Petroleum & Mineral Law (LL.M.), Wambua lectures part-time at Strathmore Law School and mentors young lawyers through the African Climate Lawyers Initiative. Accolades include listings in Legal 500’s Green Guide (2023), Chambers Global: Environment Band 1 (2024), and the University of Edinburgh’s Climate 75 (2024). Away from the boardroom she is a keen bird-watcher and volunteers with the Kenya Wetlands Forum to protect Rift Valley lakes.