Dr. Walter Omonywa Onchere, PhD is a Lecturer in Actuarial Science at Kisii University with more than ten years of teaching, research, and academic leadership experience. His research focuses on actuarial modeling, survival analysis, Bayesian statistics, frailty models, copula modeling, insurance risk, pension modeling, and climate risk analytics. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed international journals and has successfully supervised undergraduate research projects while serving as Programme Leader for the Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science. Having worked at the Technical University of Kenya as a part-time lecturer and at Kisii University from Tutorial Fellow to Full-time Lecturer. He has taught actuarial and statistics students from degree, masters and PhD levels and is a member of The Actuarial Society of Kenya that has participated in proposing various changes in the insurance sector in Kenya.