Victor Ongoma is a meteorologist specialising in climatology and climate change. He holds a PhD (Meteorology) from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China, attained in 2017. His PhD thesis focused on the variability of extreme climate events over East Africa. Victor earned his MSc and BSc (Meteorology) from the University of Nairobi in Kenya in 2012 and 2009, respectively.

He is assistant professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco. He worked for the Kenyan government as a meteorologist prior to joining academia.