Joseph Wakaba Mucheru EGH was the former Kenyan Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communications He was appointed by the then President of Kenya

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. Joe held that office since from 2015 to 2022.

Early life and education

Mucheru attended the Nairobi Primary School between 1977 and 1982, his high school education was at Lenana School between 1983 (form 1) and 1988 (form 6). He attended the Business Executive Programme from

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in 2008. He holds a (B Sc. (Hons)) in

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from

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. He was awarded the Moran of the order of the burning spear in December 2010 by the President of the Republic of Kenya,

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. He is a member of the Africa Leadership Network, The National Prayer Breakfast, and the East African Business Summit.

Career

He is a former

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Sub-Sahara Africa Lead based in the Google

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office. He was Google's first Sub-Saharan employee and was key to setting up Google's presence in Africa from 2007. Before joining Google he worked at Wananchi Online, a company he co-founded in 1999, in various roles at the company including Chief Technology Officer and

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. Joseph Mucheru has been on the boards of many companies and businesses, including the M-Pesa Foundation Academy advisory board, the payments platform Bitpesa (now Aza Group), and GiveDirectly, which aims to cut out the intermediary and ensure that donations go straight to the intended recipients.

Personal life

Mucheru married Aida Wambui in 2005 under Kikuyu traditional laws. The marriage lasted for ten years, Wambui filed for divorce on June 29, 2015, claiming her marriage to Mucheru had irretrievably broken down and that their union was a “sham without feelings.”

References

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