He has an extensive experience in the areas of environment, natural resources management, town planning, climate change and related policy areas. Former Director of Environment in the Vice President’s Office (Tanzania), retired from Government service in November 2009 having served in that capacity for 20 years since establishment of the Department of Environment in 1990. He is currently an environmental, climate change and policy consultant, and Managing Director of an Environment, Climate Change & Policy Consulting Firm operating regionally and internationally.

Eric holds a Bsc. (Engineering), Land Survey and Photogrammetric, from University of Nairobi (1974); Master of Town and Country Planning (MTCP, 1978) University of Sydney, Australia; and Post-Graduate Diploma, (Urban and Regional Planning, 1976), Szczecin Technical University, Poland. Eric is a Humphrey Fellow of the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies (Environmental infrastructure), from M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990), Cambridge and USA. Eric has coordinated numerous strategic, operational programmes and projects in the field of environment and natural resources in Tanzania as well as regionally and internationally.