Dennis Alima
Ministry of Infrastructure
road safety and design improvement consultant
Dennis Alima
Dennis Alima is a UK Chartered Transport Infrastructure and Road Safety Specialist with over 13 years of experience delivering complex, multidisciplinary transport and highway infrastructure projects across the full project lifecycle. He holds a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering and an M.Sc. (Eng.) in Transport Planning and Engineering, underpinned by strong technical expertise in road safety engineering, traffic engineering, transportation planning and project management.
Dennis has accumulated 12 years of post-qualification experience in road safety, working across a broad spectrum of infrastructure road projects for both private and public sector clients. His road safety practice spans the complete assessment and intervention cycle, road safety inspections, hazard identification and risk classification, road safety appraisals and audits, legal risk implications, and baseline data collection along project corridors. He is experienced in designing and delivering road safety awareness campaigns that promote the safe use of roads among affected communities. A key dimension of Dennis's expertise is his applied proficiency in the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) methodology.
Dennis has delivered projects financed by major international donors and development finance institutions, including the World Bank, AfDB, UK Export Finance, China Exim Bank, and local governments. His geographic experience spans the United Kingdom, Tonga (Pacific Islands), and Sub-Saharan Africa, with primary project delivery in Uganda and client support roles across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania.
He is also an accomplished project manager, with experience leading transportation components of large, complex programmes, including functional and staging design of highways and interchanges. His broader areas of expertise include sustainable urban mobility, transport strategy and policy, public transport planning and design, traffic and transport management, travel demand forecasting and modelling, highways design, climate resilience, and construction management.
