Top 100 Kenyans 2020

Joshua Oigara

Joshua Oigara is the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), the biggest bank by asset base.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Nairobi as well as an accounting certification at Strathmore University School of Accountancy. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from Edith Cowan University.

Francis Atwoli

Francis Atwoli is the Secretary-General of the Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU), a position he has held since 2001.

The career trade unionist has served in different workers’ unions for the last 40 years starting as the Branch Secretary of the defunct Union of Posts and Telecommunication Employees in 1971.

Douglas Ogoti

Douglas Ogoti is the Chief Magistrate at the special purpose anti-corruption court in Milimani, Nairobi.

Ogoti previously worked at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) for 20 years before joining the judiciary in 2016.

David Ndii

Dr. David Ndii is an acclaimed economist, author and strategist. He has advised multilateral lenders, financial institutions, presidents and political parties in the areas of economic policy and public finance.

The Oxford University PhD holder was a one-time lecturer at the University of Nairobi and later worked as the Chief Economist at Equity Bank and as an economist at the World Bank.

David Maraga

David Kenani Maraga is the Chief Justice and the President of the Supreme Court of Kenya a position he has occupied since October 2016.

The trained lawyer joined the judiciary as a High Court Judge in 2003 after working for 25 years as an advocate. He joined the Court of Appeal in 2012 where he served as the Presiding Judge of the Appellate Court in Kisumu.

Charity Ngilu

Charity Kaluki Ngilu is a politician and the current Kitui County Governor, one of the three women governors that were elected as governors in the 2017 General Election.

Ngilu’s political career spans three decades having first vied and won the Kitui central parliamentary seat in 1992.

Boniface Mwangi

Boniface Mwangi is an activist, photographer and politician. He is the founder of Ukweli Party and Pawa 254, a social hub for artists and activists in the Human Rights space.

Mwangi started his career as a photojournalist for the Standard newspaper after he dropped out of Bible School where he was training to be a pastor.

Ali Hassan Joho

Ali Hassan Joho is the current Governor of Mombasa County and the Orange Democratic Party deputy leader. He is serving his second and final 5-year term as governor of the coastal county.

Joho actively got into elective politics in 2007 when he won the Kisauni parliamentary seat after joining the Liberal Democratic Party in 2006 as the party’s chairman in the constituency.

Alfred Mutua

Dr. Alfred Nganga Mutua is serving his second and final term as the Governor of Machakos County.

He was reelected during the 2017 general elections on a Maendeleo Chap Chap Party ticket, a political party he founded in August 2016. In 2013, Mutua was sponsored to vie for the inaugural gubernatorial race by the Wiper Democratic Party.