Kevin Kinusu is a strategic thinker in social entrepreneurship, SME Coach, and social enterprise builder with over 10 years in managing programs. He is the Managing Director for Africa Bioenergy Programs Limited. This enterprise has stemmed from a public-private partnership program under the Africa Biogas Partnership Program (ABPP) called the Kenya Biogas Program. The biogas program in Kenya, under Kinusu's leadership, is the fastest-growing and largest domestic biogas program in Africa by household adoption rates and a winner of the Globe Energy Award Kenya 2019. Kinusu, under this program, has supported over 22,000 rural households' access to clean and sustainable cooking energy by enabling them to adopt domestic biodigester technologies. To deliver these services in Kenya, Kinusu is working with 172 small and medium-sized enterprises across Kenya, whom he has nurtured under an accelerator program he founded in 2017, the biogas enterprise accelerator facility (BEAF). Over the last four years, these companies have generated over 6,000 full-time equivalent job opportunities across Kenya.
In his early career, Kinusu pioneered the formation of the National Potato Council of Kenya –NPCK and served as the interim coordinator in 2011. In the same year, he was part of the founding members of the Kenya Climate Change Working Group (KCCWG). He was appointed to represent an agriculture-oriented civil society organization in the national steering committee, where he also chaired the Climate Change Bill Task Force. In his time with KCCWG, he led the lobby for developing a climate change bill enacted in 2016. As a champion and advocate for action on climate change, he joined Oxfam GB as the National Climate Change Advocacy Officer in 2012. He later moved to the Hivos Foundation as the Climate and Energy Advocacy Coordinator for the East Africa region in 2013, and Techfortrade as the East Africa Director, before taking up the challenge to build Kenya Biogas program where he serves to date. Kinusu is passionate about value-based and impact-driven entrepreneurship.