Jan 11, 2023 1 Min Read
Mukhisa was appointed as UNCTAD's seventh secretary general in September 2013. He was reappointed in 2017 after serving a four-year term.
Dr Mukhisa has a long history as an academic and a high-ranking government official.
In 1956, he was born in the Bungoma District in Western Kenya. At the University of Nairobi and Makerere University, he studied political science and international relations, respectively. In 1982, he received his Bachelor's degree. He received his Master's degree in 1986 and his PhD in 1989 from the University of Bergen in Norway.
From 1989 to 1991, Dr. Mukhisa worked as a researcher at Norway's Christian Michelsen Institute, and from 1991 to 1992, he was the Program Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies in Nairobi.
He was first elected to Kenya's Parliament in 1992 and was re-elected twice. During Kibaki's presidency, he served as Kenya's Minister of Trade and Industry from 2002 until 2007. Mukhisa chaired the COMESA Council of Ministers for two years while in the Ministry. He was also the head of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group's Ministerial Council in the United States, and the primary negotiator for Eastern and Southern African Ministers during the European Union Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations.
He was the convenor of the Agriculture talks at the World Trade Organization's sixth ministerial summit in China in 2005. Dr Mukhisa was a member of an expert committee advising East African Community presidents from 2008 to 2012.
Dr Kituyi is married and has four children.
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