Ole Kaunga is is a Laikipia Maasai and the Founder and Director of IMPACT. Born in Laikipia, he has dedicated over 20 years of his career to defend the land and human rights of pastoralists in Kenya and Africa. He is the founder of several organisations, including the Organisation for Survival of II-Laikipiak Indigenous Group (OSILIGI) which won a key legal battle against the British Goverment regarding the injuries and killings caused by British army training and leftover ammunition in Kenya. Ole Kaunga also founded the Maasai Cultural Heritage Center and has worked for the International Labour Organization (ILO) as an expert on Indigenous Peoples, extensively working on land rights, Indigenous traditional knowledge and culture, as well as natural resource governance. He consults for the United Nations and other international or grassroots organisations. Ole Kaunga has also worked with several universities and law firms to get justice against the private sector and governments actors who violate community rights. 

He has also worked with WIPO on issues of Maasai Cultural Heritage and with UNESCO on Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and Climate Change. He has published articles in different journals on the topics of Indigenous traditional knowledge, Indigenous Peoples and urbanization, Indigenous Peoples’ education and the militarization of Indigenous lands.