Top 100 Kenyans 2020

Dr. Gideon Maina Muriuki, MBS, is the Group Managing Director & CEO, Executive Director, Member of the Board of Management of The Co-operative Bank of Kenya Limited.

Wawira Njiru is a Kenyan businesswoman, entrepreneur, human nutritionist, and philanthropist, who serves as the executive director of Food 4 Education, an organization that cooks, prepares and distributes nutritious meals, at subsidized prices to over 2,000 poor school children in Ruiru, a suburb of Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya.

Mohammed Badi is the current Director General of the newly-formed Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS). Badi has been tasked with the responsibility of transforming Nairobi city. The Retired Army man has a Master’s Degree of Science in Strategic Studies and worked for over thirty years as Government Certification Officer.

Mercy Mwangangi is the Chief Administrative Secretary in the Health ministry. She is a trained medical doctor having graduated from the University of Nairobi in 2009 with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Health Economics and Policy from the University of Adelaide, Australia. 

Prof Mungai Mutonya is a Teaching Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis since 2018.

Linus Kaikai is currently the Director of Strategy and Innovation at Citizen TV and also the Chairman of the Kenya Editors Guild KEG. Kaikai holds a Master's degree in International Journalism from the Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology.

In 2024, Kaikai continued to use his platform to influence, report, and disseminate news to all Kenyans.

Kennedy Ombima is a Kenyan musician better known by his stage names King Kaka and Rabbit.

Apart from his successful music career, Kaka is also a businessman who has used his music brand name to popularise his products. 

He is popularly known as Njugush among Kenyans - a name that has seen him rise to stardom in the entertainment industry playing various characters on different fields.

He is the Nation Media Group's Editorial Director. Mutuma holds a Bachelor's degree (BA) from Egerton University, a post graduate diploma in Mass Communication from the University of Nairobi and a Master of Arts (MA) from the University of Leeds, UK.

Responsible for all editorial operations across all NMG platforms in Kenya, the veteran journalist has set the pace in digital transformation in the Kenyan media scene.

Michael Olunga is a Kenyan professional footballer who plays for Japanese club Kashiwa Reysol and the Kenya national team, Harambee Stars.

Popularly known as ‘Engineer’, Olunga’s story is an inspiration to many youths. Olunga who began his career with the Liberty Sports Academy in Nairobi previously played for the Kenyan Premier League side Tusker, Thika United and Gor Mahia.