Michael Ochieng Odhiambo is a trained lawyer who specialises in policy research and analysis in land, environment and natural resource management. He has supported the development of land and natural resources policies within the African Union and IGAD, and in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan and Somalia and worked in Rwanda, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Ghana, Malawi, Mali and Mozambique. He was a member of the Technical Task Force on development of the Policy Framework for Pastoralism in Africa and participated in the development of the Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa. He has led several studies on land management and conflict with RVI in Somalia.