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Catherine Mturi-Wairi is a Kenyan
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and
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. She is the former
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of
Kenya Ports Authority Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) is a state corporation with the responsibility to "maintain, operate, improve and regulate all scheduled seaports" on the Indian Ocean coastline of Kenya, including principally Kilindini Harbour at Mombasa. Other KPA ...
(KPA) and the first woman to lead the KPA. She was appointed to that position on 12 July 2016, having served in an acting capacity from February 2016. She resigned on 9 June 2018, after a 25-year career at the agency.


Background and education

Mturi-Wairi was born in Kenya in 1968. She studied at the United States International University Africa in
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, graduating with a
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. Later, she obtained a
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from the same university. She is a
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and a Certified Public Secretary. She is also a SAP Consultant in Finance.


Career

In 1993, she joined KPA as a junior accountant and has worked there continuously since. She previously served as manager for management accounting, manager for financial accounting and manager for finance. On 9 February 2016, at the rank of general manager finance, she was appointed as acting managing director, replacing Gichiri Ndua, who along with other top brass at KPA, was relieved of his duties amid corruption allegations. On 12 July 2016, she was confirmed as managing director of Kenya Ports Authority until June 2018.


Other responsibilities

Mturi-Wairi is a non-executive director of
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, a medium-sized Kenyan commercial bank.


See also

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Nancy Onyango Nancy Asiko Onyango, commonly known as Nancy Onyango, is a Kenyan accountant, businesswoman and corporate executive, who is the Director of the Office of Internal Audit and Inspection at the International Monetary Fund. She was appointed on 4 De ...


References


External links


Website of Kenya Ports Authority
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mturi-Wairi, Catherine 1970 births Living people United States International University alumni Kikuyu people Kenyan accountants Kenyan women accountants 21st-century Kenyan businesswomen 21st-century Kenyan businesspeople People from Mombasa Kenyan Christians