Charles Odira Maxwell received his undergraduate degree in BSc Agricultural Engineering in the year 2004, MSc Information Systems in the year 2015 and PhD in Civil Engineering 2026, all from the University of Nairobi. He has worked as a management engineering trainee in Kenya Bus Services in the year 2004 – 2005, ICT trainer at Institute of Advanced Technology in the year 2005 – 2007, Senior laboratory Technologist at the University of Nairobi, Civil Engineering Department in the year 2007 – 2016 and was promoted to his current position as a tutorial fellow in the year 2016. His research topics include: hydraulic modelling and simulation, water security, water-energy- food nexus, water supply infrastructure. He is a member of Nile Basin Capacity Building Network for River Engineering, Engineers’ Board of Kenya (EBK) and Institution of Engineers of Kenya (IEK). He was trained on Water Infrastructure Asset Management in IHE Delft, Netherlands, May 1 – 12, 2023. He is a beneficiary of Erasmus+ KA171 International Credit Mobility - ICM programme which took him to the University of Florence in Italy, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering from February to July 2024 on a PhD exchange programme. His current research is part of a multidisciplinary research on improving water security for the poor funded by UK Aid from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).