Bob Munro is the Managing Director of XXCEL Africa Ltd. Since 1985 he has lived and worked in Africa as a senior adviser on environmental policy, water resources management and sustainable development for African governments, regional development organizations and the United Nations.
He is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA), a self-help youth sports and community development project started in 1987 in one of Africa’s largest and poorest slums. Today over 14,000 youth on 1,200 teams take part in the MYSA sports, slum cleanup, AIDS prevention, leadership training, jailed kids, photography, music and other community development activities. Another 10,000 youth from eight countries participate in a similar sport and development project initiated by MYSA in 1999 in the Kakuma refugee camp in northwest Kenya.
He is also the Chairman of Mathare United, one of Kenya’s top and most popular football clubs, and is a Director and Vice Chairman of the Kenyan Premier League Ltd.
MYSA and Mathare United won the 1992 UNEP Global 500 Award for environmental innovation (Rio de Janeiro), the 2001 CAF/African Youth Development Award (Johannesburg), the 2003 Prince Claus Award for cultural achievement (Amsterdam), the 2004 World Sports Academy/Laureus Sport for Good Award (Lisbon) and the 2004 International Fair Play Award.
In 1999 Bob was awarded the Stromme Foundation “Help for Self-Help Prize” in Oslo. |