Agness Gidna is a Tanzanian paleontologist and a former Senior Curator of Paleontology at the National Museum of Tanzania.
She is currently working with Ngorongoro Conservation Area as a Principal Cultural Heritage Officer.
[1] She is the first Tanzanian woman to hold a doctorate in Physical Anthropology and she is the first Tanzanian female research director at Olduvai Gorge, where she has been a co-principal investigator of the Olduvai Palaeoanthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP) since 2017.
[3] As Senior Curator of Paleontology at the National Museum of Tanzania, she has organized and curated two major exhibitions about human origin in Olduvai Gorge Museum, founded by Mary Leakey, and the National Museum of Tanzania.
She gave tours to Samia Suluhu Hassan, Vice President of Tanzania in 2017 during the inauguration of the new Olduvai Gorge museum and to Monica Chakwera, First Lady of Malawi.