DR. DENNIS MUTHAMA is a Lecturer in Real Estate studies with a specialization in land administration and management at the Department of Real Estate, Construction Management and Quantity Surveying at the University of Nairobi. He is a Land Economist by training who received his PhD in Geomatics Engineering from the University of Calgary, Canada. He currently holds a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship position at the British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
Dr. Muthama has written extensively about issues dealing with the complex relationship between land tenure administration and peri-urban areas. In his work, he explored the effectiveness of official land tenure administration systems and street-level land administration officials in peri-urban contexts in Mombasa, Kenya. His ongoing research investigates the digitalization of land administration processes in rapidly urbanizing peripheries of Nairobi Metropolitan Region (NMR). To this end, his work has appeared in well-regarded peer-reviewed journals such as Urban Forum and Geomatica.
Dr. Muthama regularly contributes to public debates on land tenure administration and digitization through blogs. He has also worked with different types of stakeholders including researchers, policymakers (state agencies), and multilateral organizations (UNIDO, and RCMRD) on different land administration assignments.
Professionally, Dr. Muthama is a Full Member of the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya (MISK) and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb). His general research interest areas include land tenure, land administration, and digitalization, land tenure administration in urban peripheries, and land tenure administration in post-conflict urban contexts. He is particularly interested in exploring the challenges of land administration digital transformation and its impact on land relations within different contexts in Kenya.