Keynote Speaker

Prof. George Saitoti

Prof. George Saitoti, Minister, Internal Security

Prof. George Kinuthia Saitoti (born 1945) is a mathematician, politician, and former Vice President of Kenya. He currently serves as Minister for Internal Security.

George Saitoti is both Maasai, and Kikuyu by origin. Ironically, Human Rights Watch accused him of inciting ethnic violence in the Rift Valley Province during the run-up to the 1992 Kenyan general elections, violence that was mainly directed against the Kikuyu.

He studied at Mang'u High School and received his undergraduate education in the U.S. at Brandeis University on a Wien Scholarship. Saitoti obtained a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Warwick in 1972 in the area of algebraic topology. more..

Other Speakers

Dr. Manu Chandaria

1. Dr. Manu Chandaria, Chairman Comcraft Group Kenya (HOST)

Dr. Manu Chandaria Obe Ebs, born in Kenya, is engaged in work within the framework of a joint Indian family of seventy members with business interests in more than forty countries. He is the Chairman of Mabati Rolling Mills Ltd. and Kaluworks Ltd. in Kenya, and the Chairman of Aluminium Africa Ltd. in Tanzania.

Dr. Chandaria is also the Founding Chairman of the East African Business Council and a past Chairman of the Kenya Association of Manufacturers. He currently sits on other boards and councils in the manufacturing, insurance and higher education sectors. He is the founding and present Chairman of Kenya Private Sector Alliance, an umbrella body representing over two hundred sectors and organizations. more..

Michael E. Ranneberger

2. Ambassador Michael E. Ranneberger, US Ambassador to Kenya

Michael E. Ranneberger is currently serving as U.S. Ambassador to Kenya and is also responsible for U.S. relations with Somalia. He was confirmed on June 29, 2006, and began his duties in the field on August 11, 2006. Mr. Ranneberger served as the Senior Representative on Sudan in the Bureau of African Affairs from January-August 2006. From 2004 to 2005, he was the Africa Bureau’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary. He served as Special Advisor on Sudan from 2002 to 2004. From 1999 to 2002, he was Ambassador to the Republic of Mali. He is a member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor. more..

Erastus Mong’are

3. Erastus Mong’are, President, Delaware Kenya Association

Erastus B. Mong’are is the State Program Director for Delaware’s Governor’s Commission on Community and Volunteer Service, volunteer President and Project Director for the Delaware Kenya Association (DEKA), founder for Africans for Change International, and, former board member of People to People International, Delaware Chapter, and, founder and past-President of the Delaware African Students Association (DASA) at the University of Delaware. more..