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Joseph Wakaba Mucheru | |
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Cabinet Secretary for Ministry of Information and Communications (Kenya) [1] | |
In office 2015–2022 | |
President | Uhuru Kenyatta |
Succeeded by | Eliud Owalo |
Personal details | |
Born | August 28, 1968 Limuru |
Citizenship | Kenyan |
Nationality | Kenyan |
Education | Stanford University Graduate School of Business |
Alma mater | City University London. (Bsc.Economics & Computer Science) Lenana School |
Awards | Elder of the Order of the Golden Heart (EGH), The Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear (M.B.S) |
Website | https://ict.go.ke |
Joseph Wakaba Mucheru EGH was the former Kenyan Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communications. [2] [3] [4] He was appointed by the then President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta. Joe held that office since from 2015 to 2022.
Mucheru attended the Nairobi Primary School between 1977 and 1982, [5] his high school education was at Lenana School between 1983 (form 1) and 1988 (form 6). [6] He attended the Business Executive Programme from Stanford University Graduate School of Business [7] in 2008. He holds a (B Sc. (Hons)) in Economics & Computer Science from City University London. [8] He was awarded the Moran of the order of the burning spear in December 2010 by the President of the Republic of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki. He is a member of the Africa Leadership Network, The National Prayer Breakfast, and the East African Business Summit. [9]
He is a former Google Sub-Sahara Africa Lead based in the Google Nairobi office. He was Google's first Sub-Saharan employee and was key to setting up Google's presence in Africa from 2007. [10] [11] [9] Before joining Google he worked at Wananchi Online, a company he co-founded in 1999, in various roles at the company including Chief Technology Officer and Chief Executive Officer. [9]
Joseph Mucheru has been on the boards of many companies and businesses, including the M-Pesa Foundation Academy [12] advisory board, the payments platform BitPesa (now AZA Finance), [13] and GiveDirectly, [14] which aims to cut out the intermediary and ensure that donations go straight to the intended recipients.
Mucheru married Aida Wambui in 2005 under Kikuyu traditional laws.[ citation needed] The marriage lasted for ten years, Wambui filed for divorce on June 29, 2015, claiming her marriage to Mucheru had irretrievably broken down and that their union was a “sham without feelings.” [15]
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