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Njuguna Ndung'u's Biography in Summary

In Kenya, Professor Njuguna is an economist, researcher, and university instructor. Between 2007 to 2015, he was the eighth Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya. Njuguna is the current Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Planning.

Njuguna Ndung'u Early Years

Prof Njuguna Ndungu was born in 1960 in Lodwar, Turkana County.

Njuguna Ndung'u Education

Njuguna earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Master of Arts from the University of Nairobi. He later earned a PhD from Sweden's University of Gothenburg.

Njuguna Ndung'u Career

Njuguna has a lengthy history of research, teaching, and management. After receiving his PhD, he worked as a university lecturer before joining the African Economic Research Consortium as the director of training.

He was also an associate professor of economics at the University of Nairobi, where he taught advanced economic theory and econometrics.

Prof Njuguna Ndung'u also worked as a regional programme specialist at the International Development Research Centre's Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office in Nairobi.

Njuguna Ndung'u has substantial research and teaching experience in economic subjects like as macroeconomics, microeconomics, econometrics, and poverty alleviation. He has published in international journals and chapters in various books on economic policy issues, inflation, interest rate and exchange rate issues, financial management, public sector growth, external debt, financial liberalization in Anglophone Africa, structural adjustment, and employment and labor market issues as a long-time researcher and trainer with the AERC and MEFMI networks.

Prof Ndunng'u was named Governor of the Central Bank in 2007, a position he held until 2015.

Prof. Njuguna Ndung'u was appointed executive director of the African Economic Research Consortium in 2018. (AERC).

Njuguna Ndung'u Family

Professor Njuguna Ndung'u rarely speaks about his family. He does, however, have one wife and three children: Stephen Ndung'u, Ian Ndung'u, and Brenda Ndung'u.