Ratemo Michieka

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Ratemo Michieka was the controversial director-general of the National Environmental Management Authority in Kenya.He was dismissed amid corruption charges totalling 70 million kenyan shillings. Charges against him are still pending .

He for a longtime worked 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.