Evans is the Director of the East Africa Institute at Aga Khan University, Nairobi. He is a research scientist and international development practitioner with over 18 years of experience in programme development, project management and grants administration across Africa and South Asia. He holds a PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry from the University of Nairobi/Max Planck Institut fur Chemie, Germany and a Master of Business Administration from Africa Nazarene University. He held the position of Senior Programme Specialist at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)’s Climate Change Programme for over 10 years. Evans also served as a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Environmental Chemistry Department at the University of Nairobi.