Jonathan Ogwang

Jonathan is a Civil Engineer whose skills, experience and passion centre on managing waste, water and renewable energy. Most of Jonathan’s academic and professional work has focused on biogas provision in South Africa: as an engineer, researcher, independent biogas provider, and project manager. The title of his doctoral project is “How biogas failed to light up a continent: why the most promising technology never spread across Africa.” The project aims to understand the technical, economic, and socio-political reasons for low biogas uptake within Sub-Saharan Africa. The work will provide evidence for, and quantify the impacts of, biogas failure, in South Africa and Malawi. The goal is to improve the design, targeting, and training related to biogas on the continent.