Mukhisa Kituyi

Mukhisa Kituyi is in his second term as UNCTAD’s secretary general, having been first appointed in 2013. He has served as Kenya’s minister of trade and industry, chair of the Council of Ministers of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the African Trade Ministers’ Council and the Council of Ministers of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States. As a consultant for the African Union Commission, he helped to develop the structure for a pan-African free trade area.