Dr. Willy Kiprotich Tonui, EBS is the Chairman and Executive Director Environmental Health Safety (EHS Consultancy Ltd) a Consulting firm based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The firm currently provide consultancy services to GeneConvene Global Collaborative on Genetic Biocontrol projects in Africa. He was the inagural Chief Executive Officer at the National Biosafety Authority (NBA), Nairobi, Kenya.

He has also served as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the global International Federation of Biosafety Associations (IFBA); Founder and the Past Chair of the Association of National Biosafety Agencies in Africa (ANBAA) a network of Government biosafety regulatory agencies in Africa and also, the Founder Member and Past President of African Biological Safety Association (AfBSA) a professional association that seeks to congregate practitioners of biological safety, promote biosafety and biosecurity as a discipline through awareness and to facilitate the sharing of biosafety and biosecurity information in the African region.

For his distinguished service in Biosafety he was recently decorated with the “Elder of the Order of the Burning Spear (EBS)” by the President of Kenya.