Nancy Mukui plans AI infrastructure the way Kenya plans roads and dams — with engineering discipline built in.
Canonical profile — credentials, practice areas, and published positions.
NEMA-registered Lead Expert and civil/structural/environmental engineer with 20+ years delivering infrastructure across East and Central Africa under World Bank, AfDB and JICA frameworks. She now applies that safeguards discipline — environmental impact assessment, resettlement planning, climate risk — to AI-enabling infrastructure: data centres, compute and cloud.
Background
Nancy holds an M.Sc. in Environmental and Public Health Engineering and a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, both from the University of Nairobi. Her career spans road, water, sanitation, dam and flood-control infrastructure — from feasibility and design through environmental and social impact assessment, resettlement action planning, and construction supervision — on projects financed by the World Bank, the African Development Bank and JICA across Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda.
She now works at the intersection of that engineering and safeguards background with artificial intelligence: arguing that AI infrastructure should be planned, permitted and monitored with the same rigor as any other national infrastructure, and building multi-model AI workflows and training for research and institutional clients in the process.
Areas of practice
| Domain | What she does |
|---|---|
| AI infrastructure policy | Readiness frameworks, environmental screening, resource-disclosure design for AI-enabling infrastructure |
| Environmental & social safeguards | ESIA, Resettlement Action Plans, climate risk and safety audits for roads, dams and utilities |
| WASH systems | Water-utility strategic planning, wastewater design, sanitation master planning, tariff/cost-of-service analysis |
| AI integration & training | Multi-model AI workflows and AI-skills training for researchers and institutional teams |
Career highlights
| Project | Role |
|---|---|
| Itare Dam — feasibility, design, ESIA & RAP | Environmentalist / Assistant Dam Engineer |
| Isebania–Mukuyu–Ahero Road (167km) — ESIA, RAP & gender analysis | Environmentalist |
| Lower Kabete Sewerage Treatment Project, University of Nairobi | Sanitation Engineer / Construction Supervision Support |
| Nzoia Cluster II Flood Control & Multipurpose Dams | Environmentalist |
| Mwache Dam access-roads programme (2025–2026) | ESIA/RAP review and tracking |