Prof. Robert Kibugi is a Kenyan environmental lawyer who holds Doctor of Laws (LL.D) degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. He also holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) and Master of Laws (LL.M – environmental law) from the University of Nairobi. Dr. Kibugi is currently a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi where he teaches various undergraduate, Master and PhD courses. This include Law of Torts, Land Use Law (LL.B & LL.M), Climate Change Law (LL.B & LL.M), Environmental Liability (PhD Environmental Law), Environmental Law and Institutional Frameworks (PhD Environmental Governance). Dr Kibugi also supervises LL.B Student Writing projects; LL.M Research Projects; and Theses for MA and PhD candidates, and has successfully supervised many graduate (LL.M, MA and PhD) students to completion.

Dr. Kibugi is a legal and policy researcher working, inter alia, on legal, policy and institution aspects of climate change adaptation and mitigation; water sector legal and institutional reforms; climate resilience in the water sector; public participation in natural resource governance; land reform on the use of law to realize sustainable land, and implementation of constitutional provisions on land law.