Bob Nakileza is a PhD holder and educationist in Environmental and Geographical sciences. His major research interests spans environmental change, disasters (response, preparedness and recovery), and natural resource management using a socio-ecological lens. He has widely published in peer journals and books on these thematic aspects. He loves photography,  jogging, mountain hiking and nature walks. His long time coordination of mountain resource unit  at Makerere University plus active teaching (on mountain geography), research and community action for development have strongly bonded him for mountain activism.