Ina Wilkie

Senior Project Consultant- Sustainable Ecosystems and Food Security

Ina is the founder and director of the Kambashu Institute, a Permaculture learning centre for and by shack dwellers in the informal settlements of Windhoek, Namibia. With a career in running communication companies in Germany as CEO and COO, followed by a decade of spinning narratives internationally in the environmental policy space, she decided to take her energy and experience to grassroots level.

Ina founded the Kambashu Institute in 2021. The project addresses the gap between people who want to improve their lives and their access to designing and creating. Solutions focus on growing food, grey water use and sanitation. The Institute is an agroecology project of the World Future Council.

For many years, Ina lead the World Future Council’s projects on sustainable ecosystems and food security in Africa, facilitating inter-parliamentary hearings with her team and developing a strong narrative around solutions for Africa, made in Africa. Today she is a Senior Advisor to the Ecosystem Commission of the World Future Council. Ina has a degree in political science from Hamburg University, a degree in economics and is a certified Permaculture designer.