Sheila Wairimu Mwarangu (née Sheila Wairimu), is a consultant

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, who is a

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Gathara & Partners Consulting Civil and Structural Engineers
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n consulting engineering company in

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, Kenya's capital and largest city.

Background and education

She obtained her

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(BEng) in

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in 2002, from the

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. She continued her studies at

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, where she was awarded a

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(MSc) degree in

Structural Engineering Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering in which structural engineers are trained to design the 'bones and muscles' that create the form and shape of man-made structures. Structural engineers also must understand and cal ...

, in 2003. She also has an

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(EMBA) degree from

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, awarded in 2015. Later, in 2016, she obtained a

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(MBA) degree from

Strathmore Business School 'Strathmore University Business School (SBS)'' is the Business School of Strathmore University. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, it offers Doctoral, Masters and Undergraduate programmes, as well as executive education programmes. It was started in 2005 t ...

Career

Immediately after her master's degree at Imperial College, she was hired by the

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, working there as a graduate engineer, at their offices in

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, in the United Kingdom, for two years from 2003 until 2005. In 2006, she switched employers and relocated to ''TRP Consulting'', also in Manchester, working there as a

for two years until 2008. She then moved to her native

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and worked as an engineer at Gathara and Partners Consulting Engineers for one year until 2010. She then returned to

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, and worked as a structural engineer a
Clancy Consulting
for two years until 2012. In October 2012 she was elected

at Gathara & Partners Consulting Engineers, in Nairobi Kenya. In August 2017, she was appointed as

and

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at the engineering consultancy.

Family

She is a mother of two children.

Other considerations

She sits in a number of boards of directors, including at ''ASHA Freight Limited'', a freight forwarding business based in Manchester, United Kingdom and at ''CONTERRA Limited'', a Nairobi-based real estate development company. In 2017, Sheila Mwarangu was named among the "Top 40 Under 40 Women 2017" by

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, a daily English language business newspaper, published by the

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