Chairman

Mr. Kariuki was appointed to be the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Competition Authority of Kenya, for a period of three years, with effect from the 10th February 2023. Mr. Kariuki serves as the Co-CEO of Kuramo Capital Management, LLC an independent investment management firm driving catalytic private institutional capital to fast-growing African businesses. In his role as the Chairman of the Investment Committee of Kuramo Capital, he leads Kuramo Capital’s investment activities across Africa. Additionally, Mr. Kariuki leads Kuramo Capital’s Board Governance strategy across all portfolio companies. Further, Mr. Kariuki currently serves in leadership roles in various companies across the African continent, including in Kenya, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He also serves on various advisory boards of companies in Europe and USA. He is the former chairman of Deseret First Credit Union in the USA. Mr. Kariuki has extensive experience in key leadership roles in various investment and asset classes, including in private equity, fixed incomes, domestic and emerging market, investment banking and hospitality. Mr. Kariuki received a Master’s in Government from Harvard University and holds a B.S. in Economics, and MBA with an emphasis in Finance from Brigham Young University. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the Harvard Club in New York city.

Acting Director-General

Dr. Roba was on 9th January, 2023 appointed as the Authority’s Acting Director-General. Prior to his appointment, Dr. Roba served as the Authority’s Director, Planning, Research, Policy, and Quality Assurance. In this position, which he held since July 2018, Dr. Roba was responsible for, among others, developing effective strategies for economic analysis and policy to inform the Authority’s mandate execution. Dr. Roba has over fifteen (15) years’ experience in applied research, policy making and development of legislative frameworks. At the Authority, he has spearheaded various research initiatives projects such as inquiries and market studies into sectors such as fertilizer, digital credit, shipping, leasing, and banking, among others. Prior to joining the Authority, Dr. Roba was a Senior Policy Analyst at the National Treasury & Planning’s Fiscal & Economic Affairs Department. He was responsible for formulation of mineral resource revenue use policy and fiscal rules, and development of legislative framework for management of mineral resource revenues. At the National Treasury, he was actively involved in several taskforces that developed legislation on climate change, petroleum, minerals, energy and related policies and regulations. Between 2017 and 2018, he served as Chairperson to the Steering Committee of the Strathmore University’s Extractives Baraza, formerly the Information Centre for Extractives Sector. Dr. Roba has also served as a Senior Lecturer in environmental economics at University of Eldoret and Moi University. He earned his PhD from the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and an MSc from the University of York (UK).

Alternate to the Principal Secretary, State Department for Trade.

Joseah Rotich has experience in trade and economic policy spanning over 25 years. In addition, he has long-term experience in spearheading trade negotiations, among them the EAC-EU EPA Negotiations, COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite FTA as lead negotiator for the EAC Partner States, the African Continental Free Trade Area as key Kenyan negotiator, and chair of the Technical Working Group (TWG) on Rules of Origin since commencement of the negotiations.

He has also worked at the Kenya Embassy in Brussels as a Commercial Counsellor for 6 years (2002-2009) covering the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg, African, Caribbean and the Pacific Partner States (ACP) activities, and World Customs Organization (WCO). 

Mr. Rotich holds a Post Graduate Degree from Brussels University (ULB) on International Economic Law, and Diploma in Multilateral Diplomacy/Conferencing from United Nations Institute for Trade and Research (UNITAR), Bachelor of Arts (Economics) Hons, from Moi University, among several other training on trade policy including WTO, and Leadership.

Alternate To The Cabinet Secretary The National Treasury

Mr. Mwenda is the Director-General Budget, Fiscal and Economic Affairs in The National Treasury. He also represents the Principal Secretary of the National Treasury as an Alternate Member in the Commission on Revenue Allocation and Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA). Mr Mwenda has excellent knowledge of public finance and budgeting as well as fiscal decentralisation at national, regional and international levels. Previously, he has made significant contribution in the formulation of finance and procurement related laws such as; the Public Finance Management Act, the Public Procurement & Asset Disposal Act and the Public Audit Act. He has also contributed in the design of Kenya’s current framework for management of intergovernmental fiscal transfers and coordinated the formulation of annual Division of Revenue Bills and County Allocation of Revenue Bills. Mr. Mwenda has served as the Chief Executive and member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Kenya. Also, has previously worked as a consultant for organisations such as the World Bank, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA-Rwanda), State University of New York (SUNY Kenya), Society for International Development (SID), among others. He holds a Master’s degree in Public and Economic Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK as well as a Masters of Business Administration (Finance) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics both from the University of Nairobi (UON).

Non-Executive Director

Dr. Alome K. Achayo holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), an MBA in Strategic Management & Marketing from the University of Nairobi and a BSc in Medical Microbiology from the JKUAT.

With a professional background in health sciences and strategy, Dr. Achayo has experience in driving strategy, policy crafting, change management, organizational restricting, marketing, branding, and portfolio development.  

She is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Oasis Health Specialist Hospital. Previously, she has held senior management positions in various institutions in the Public and Private sector, including St. John Ambulance Kenya, E & A Industries and the Agricultural Finance Corporation.

Non-Executive Director

Ms. Munuve holds a Master’s Degree in Strategic Management, Post Graduate Diploma and a Certificate in Leadership Development from the University of Nairobi, Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) UK, and the University of Witwatersrand South Africa, respectively.

Ms. Munuve is an experienced business executive with over 20 years local and International work experience gained in corporations such as Esso (K) Ltd, ExxonMobil, Kenya Shell Ltd & Vivo Energy.

At these organizations, she has been involved in maximizing business opportunities, improving customer service and contract management, change management, new business development, among others. She has Board experience in various organizations in the Public and the Private sectors.

Non-Executive Director

Dr. Wanyama is a strategy and governance expert with over 20 years’ commercial and consulting experience. Dr. Wanyama has a PHD Finance, MBA Finance, Bachelor of Commerce (Management), Diploma in Co-operative Management, International Diploma in Insurance, Credit Management Diploma and is a CPA (K). He is currently undertaking a Master of Laws degree at the University of East London.

Dr. Wanyama’s areas of expertise are strategy, leadership, governance, finance and accounting. His consultancy experience is across various sectors including banking, investments, agriculture, and insurance.

He has lectured in local universities on portfolio management, management and financial accounting among other subjects. Dr. Wanyama also has experience serving in Boards of various institutions in the Public and Private sector.

Non-Executive Director

Abdi Mohamed is a Health and Conflict Management specialist with over 20 years of experience in both public and private sectors in the Horn of Africa region (Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan and Kenya). Mr. Abdi is currently a Strategy Development and Program Management Specialist -Consultant at Kenbridge Consulting Ltd. He has also served in senior management positions as the Technical Specialist (Health, Food, Security, & Climate Change) at Save the Children-Somalia; Peace Building and Conflict Management Advisor at Road International-Somalia, Program Coordinator at International Medical Corps for Sudan and South Sudan, and Senior Health Coordinator at Commitato Collaborazone Medica-Italy for Somalia. He has also served as the Council Member, Tharaka University.

Mr. Abdi holds a Bachelor of Arts (Sociology and Psychology) degree from University of Nairobi, and Master of Arts (Public Policy and Administration) from Kenyatta University. Abdi also holds a Diploma in Nursing from KMTC. In addition, he has completed Strategic Leadership Development Program at Kenya School of Government, and a Certified Trainer of Facilitator (TOF) AMREF International Training Centre-Nairobi. He is passionate about peace building and conflict management, livelihoods, market systems, education, health programs and corporate governance.