Top 100 Kenyans 2019

George Magoha

George Magoha was sworn in as Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Education, on March 26, 2019.  He is a Professor of Transplant Surgery.

Before his appointment as Cabinet Secretary, Magoha was the Chairman of the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) where he served from March 09, 2016 to March 08, 2019. He was also an Honorary Consultant Surgeon and Urologist at Kenyatta National Hospital and Nairobi Hospital.

Noordin Haji

Noordin Haji is the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). He also worked as a Deputy Director of the National Intelligence Service and worked in the Attorney General’s office for many years.

Noordin Haj has spearheaded major crackdowns on political bigwigs during his tenure. Some of the notable cases include irregular compensation in the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project, the arrest and arraignment of Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu, the National Youth Service (NYS) scandal II and most recently, the disputed payments in the Arror and Kimwarer Dam projects.

Victor Shikoli

Victor is the Co-founder and COO at HydroIQ

He is also the co-founder and Operations Director at Electrosoft limited

In 2018, HydroIQ emerged among the 10 winners of a competition organized by United States-based start-up accelerator, Techstars.

 

Samson Kinyanjui

Sam started his career in Medical research in 1994 at the Wellcome Trust Labs in Nairobi working on malaria pharmacology studies and later moved to Kilifi for a study in immunity to malaria as part of his PhD.

As Head of Training at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust since 2008, he was in charge of conducting training and developing methodologies for capacity building in Malaria research at the East Africa region.

Roy Allela

Roy Allela is the lead engineer and founder for Sign-IO, a glove that translates sign language to speech.

The technology has taken a key role in assisting people who cannot sign to communicate with those without hearing ability.

In 2019 won the Roy Africa Prize for Engineering- Royal Academy of Engineering LIF Fellow 1st Place -American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) ISHOW Winner Winner, Best Overall Innovation, Nairobi Innovation Week Winner Intel University App Challenge

Juma Theophillus

Juma is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at RockHealth Integrated Care Organization(RICO)

In 2018, His organisation model was highly applicable in providing Primary health care & response to tropical epidemics

In 2015, He was awarded Best Chairperson of The Season(End of Season 2. Year 2015) by Board of Directors. United Missions International, Kenya.

 

 

Julianna Rotich

Julianna is a Technologist, MIT Media Lab Director's Fellow.

She is the Chair of World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development.

Juliana is a Co-founder at Ushahidi Inc, a non-profit tech company,  which specialises in developing free and open-source software for changing how information flows in the world.



In 2019, she was awarded by German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the founder of software Ushahidi used for election monitoring.

Chao Mbogo

Dr Chao Mbogo is the Dean School of Science and Technology at the Kenya Methodist University (Kemu).

She is also a computer science teacher, a mentor to computer science students, and a researcher in Education Technology.

She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town.

In 2017 she won the Anita Borg Systers Pass-It-On award

In 2016, she won the Google Travel Award for Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

Damaris Parsitau

Dr. Damaris Parsitau is a gender and social justice activist, Echidna Global Scholar at the Brookings Institution, Research Associate Harvard University, USA.

She is an advocate for a just society that provides equality & adequate opportunity for women and girls

 

George Kinoti

The current Director of the DCI Kenya, George Maingi Kinoti, was appointed by President Uhuru Kenyatta on January 5, 2018, to replace Ndegwa Muhoro.

Before his appointment he was previously the National Police Spokesman based in the office of the Inspector General of Police.