Government

Mukhisa Kitui, of Kenya, became UNCTAD's seventh Secretary-General on 1 September 2013. After serving an initial four-year term, he was reappointed by the General Assembly in July 2017 for an additional term that began on 1 September that year.

He was elected to the Kenyan Parliament in 1992, and was twice re-elected.

From 2008 to 2012, Dr. Kituyi was a member of a team of experts advising the presidents of the nations of the East African Community on how to establish more effective regional economic links.

Chief of Staff and Head of the Presidential Delivery Unit , The Executive Office Of The Presidency Government Of Kenya. Nzioka is also a founding Trustee of the Safaricom Foundation, a role he has held from August 2003.

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 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.

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.

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.

Lady Justice Grace Mumbi Ngugi is a judge of the High Court of Kenya and co-founder of the Albinism Foundation for East Africa. 

The foundation comprises people with albinism, parents of children with albinism and professional friends with an interest in the rights of persons living with albinism.  Aside from being a renowned author, she is also known for scooping a number of awards.

She was awarded the 2018 CB Madan Award in an annual ceremony organized by the Platform Magazine and Strathmore Law School. 

Human Rights Activist, Okiya Omtatah Okoiti, is not a  lawyer by profession, but many see him as the country’s public defender number one because he has filed some of the biggest public interest cases that have shaped the economy and political landscape.

His quest for a just society has seen him get into trouble with law enforcers, persevering beatings and lockups. At one point in 2012, he lost four incisors after an attack that was blamed on hired goons.

Patrick Njoroge is currently the Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya. Following his PhD studies, he worked as an economist at the Kenyan Ministry of Finance from March 1993 until December 1994. From April 1995 until October 2005, he worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC. first as an economist and later as a senior economist. From November 2005 until December 2006, he served as the IMF mission chief for Dominica.

In 2002, when the Kibaki administration came to power under National Rainbow Coalition (Narc), he became a Member of Parliament for Makueni Constituency, and Minister of both Land and Settlements and Environment & Natural Resources.

He would later in 2007 be appointed as Kibaki’s Presidential Advisor (Constitutional, Parliamentary & Youth Affairs in the Office of the President.