Diana Mulili is a Kenyan economist, businesswoman, executive coach and corporate executive. She is the director, Digital Ecosystem for Africa at Prudential Africa. She is based in

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, Kenya's capital city. She took up her current position in February 2022. Before that, she was the Chief Growth Officer (CGO), at ''Xetova Limited'', an e-commerce company, focusing of B2B supply chain issues. Xetova is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Background and education

She was born in Kenya . She holds a

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...

degree in

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

from the

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. Her

Master's Degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

in Business Administration was also awarded by Nairobi University. Diana also obtained an

Executive MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

awarded by the ALU Business School, in Kigali, Rwanda. She also holds a Group Coaching Certificate awarded by ''The Academy of Executive Coaching''. In addition, she has attended various leadership and management courses, including at the

Stanford Graduate School of Business The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective business schoo ...

Career

As of February 2022, Mulili's business career spanned over twenty years. She has experience in sales, marketing, business administration and management, human resources management, executive coaching, business research, leadership and consulting, among others. For a period of three years, she worked for ''Msingi East Africa'', a non-profit organisation active in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, focusing on creating resilient employment opportunities, particularly for the youth. She served as Msingi's acting chief executive officer for one year, from 2019 until 2020. While working as Business Development and Innovation Director at Msingi, she was instrumental in guiding the development of the ''Cotton, Textiles & Apparel National Strategy and Action Plan for 2020-2025'', in Uganda.

Family

She is the mother of two daughters; the eldest was born circa 2003 and the youngest circa 2014.

Other considerations

Since September 2020, she is a member of the ''Leaders Council'' at ''The Amahoro Coalition'', an initiative that brings together business leaders in Africa to find solutions to problems that face refugees, focusing on education and living conditions.

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