Ratemo Michieka

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Ratemo Michieka is director-general of the National Environmental Management Authority in Kenya. He is a longtime leader in education and agricultural policy in eastern Africa. He earned three Rutgers’ degrees, including a master’s in agricultural education and vocational technical agriculture, and a doctorate in weed science. He returned to his native Kenya, where he taught and later became chairman of the Department of Crop Science at the University of Nairobi. In 1994, he was named vice chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Nairobi, Kenya, a post equivalent to a U.S. university president. Mr. Michieka chairs the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, considered the finest of its kind in Africa, and the Kenya Education Network. He has held administrative positions at the World Bank and the United Nations Environment Program. He also has consulted for CARE and the Swedish International Development Agency. In 1997, the Cook College Alumni Association honored Mr. Michieka with the George Hammell Cook Distinguished Alumni Award.

Micheika is a leader in Kenya’s education system. He has served as examiner for the Kenya National Examination Council; chairman of the Board of Governors for Ibacho Secondary School; vice chairman of the Kenya Agricultural Teachers Association; external examiner for Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania; member of the Commission for Higher Education’s Chairing Equations and Qualifications Committee; and member of the World Bank Universities Project.

As Vice-Chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University, he oversaw field crop production and soil management in Kenya and the region. He has held administrative positions at the World Bank and the United Nations Environment Program, and consulted for CARE and the Swedish International Development Agency