Wanja Michuki

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Wanja Michuki
Bornc.1974 (age 4849)
NationalityKenyan
CitizenshipKenyan
Education Bryn Mawr College
Columbia Business School
Occupation(s)Businesswoman, Financial Analyst and Family Enterprise Coach, Consultant, Advisor
Years active1974 — present
Title Managing Director of Be Bold Consulting and Advisory Limited

Yvonne Wanja Michuki, commonly referred to as Wanja Michuki, is a Kenyan businesswoman, family enterprise coach, consultant, advisor and financial analyst. She sits on a number of corporate boards of directors, including Kenya Agricultural Finance Corporation, based in Nairobi, Kenya and is a member of the advisory board at Columbia Global Centers, based in Nairobi. She also serves as the managing director at Be Bold Consoling and Advisory Limited, a Kenyan family enterprise coaching, consulting, and advisory firm that she founded in 2015. [1] [2] She is a member of the Family Firm Institute, based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Salzburg Global Fellow.

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Background and education

Michuki was born to Kenyan parents in 1974. Her father, the late John Michuki, was a cabinet minister in the government led by the late Mwai Kibaki, Kenya's third president. She is the youngest daughter in the family. [2]

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, United States. Later, she obtained a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia Business School in New York City. [2]

Career

As an undergraduate she worked briefly as a summer associate at Meryll Lynch (today a component of Bank of America). She was a corporate analyst at Barclays Merchant Finance Limited and then as a research manager at Barclays Trust Investment Services Limited. In 2003, she founded The Highland Tea Company LLC, based in New York City. She ran that business until 2008. [2]

Between 2009 and 2014, she worked as a "Trade, Investment and Multilateral Diplomat" for the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, based in London, United Kingdom. [2]

In 2015, she founded Be Bold Consultancy and Advisory Limited, a private financial consulting and executive coaching company, where she serves as the firm's managing director to date. [2]

Other considerations

She is a tea enthusiast. In 2020, she was appointed by the Ethical Tea Partnership (ETP), a tea lobby group, based in London, United Kingdom, to oversee the activities of the group in Kenya, Malawi and Rwanda, while based in Nairobi, Kenya. [3]

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References

  1. Brian Ngugi (19 May 2022). "Michuki's daughter lands Agricultural Finance Corporation board position". Business Daily Africa . Nairobi, Kenya. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Nairobi Leo (21 August 2021). "Profile: Inside The Life of Michuki's Youngest Daughter Yvonne Wanja". Nairobileo.co.ke. Nairobi, Kenya. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
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