He wrote his master's thesis on oil marketing in Kenya.[8] His PhD thesis was about the role of Christian symbolism,the Catholic Church,and racialism in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.[4][9]
He was an Associate Fellow at the Conflict,Security &Development Group at King’s College London.[4]
From April 2011 to December 2012,Kimani was the Director of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanism in Ethiopia.[5]
Kimani was Kenya's Permanent Representative to the United Nations,serving from December 2020[3] to May 2024.[10] He was president of the United Nations Security Council for October 2021.[11]
Kimani is the Kenyan Presidential Special Envoy for Countering Violent Extremism,and was appointed as the Director of Kenya's National Counter Terrorism Centre[6][7] in 2015.[5]
"This situation echoes our history. Kenya and almost every African country was birthed by the ending of empire. Our borders were not of our own drawing (...). Today,across the border of every single African country,live our countrymen with whom we share deep (...) bonds. At independence,had we chosen to pursue states at the basis of ethnic,racial or religious homogeneity,we would still be waging bloody wars these many decades later. Instead,we agreed that we would settle on the borders that we inherited (...),rather than form nations that looked ever backward into history with a dangerous nostalgia,we chose to look forward (...). We believe that all states formed from empires that have collapsed or retreated,have many peoples in them yearning for integration with peoples in neighbouring states. This is normal and understandable. (...) However,Kenya rejects such a yearning from being pursued by force (...). We rejected irredentism and expansionism on any basis (...),we reject it again today."[15][16]
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