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So who exactly is a University Chancellor????
Many students complete their university education without understanding the role of a chancellor leave alone only seeing them.
So who exactly is a University chancellor???
The chancellor is the honorary head and symbol of authority in the university whose main function is to confer degrees and grant diplomas and the awards of the university.
Biographies of some of the Chancellors
MOI UNIVERSITY
PROFESSOR MIRIAM WERE
Miriam Were is a professor of public health from Department of International Health, Planning and Management at Johns Hopkins University (USA).
She is an icon of health professionalism, especially in public Health. Some refer to her as ‘one of the unsung strengths of the continent’. Being a mother, she understands all the pain of motherhood and child rearing, especially in remote rural societies where access to modern health facilities still remains a dream. For the past 40 years, Prof. Were has dedicated her life to advancing the health and welfare of the people of Africa through a focus on the practicalities of delivering service at local level.
Born in 1940, in Kenya the seventh child of a Quaker family with healthcare challenges, she decided to join University of Nairobi Faculty of Medicine which had just opened. Her academic qualifications include Bachelor’s degree (BA) in Natural Sciences from Williams Penn College, lowa (1964), a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from Makerere University, (1966), Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, (MB ChB), University of Nairobi (1973), Master of Public Health, John Hopkins University (1976), and Doctor of public Health, (Health Planning and Management) from John Hopkins University (1981).
JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
Prof. Francis J. Gichaga
BSc, MSc, PhD, FIEK, FICE, REng, CEng, MBS, EBS.
EGERTON UNIVERSITY
PROFESSOR SHEM OYOO WANDIGA, EBS, FRSC
Professor Shem O. Wandiga is Professor of Chemistry at the department of Chemistry, University of Nairobi and Acting Director, Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation. Professor Wandiga’s research interests lie in studying sources and sinks of biogenic gases; persistent organochlorine pesticides in the tropics; trace metals concentration in various environmental media; complexes of Group VB metals with sulfur and oxygen binding ligands; and climate change and health. He was the Principal Investigator in project called “Capacity building to evaluate and adapt to climate-change-induced vulnerability to malaria and cholera in the Lake Victoria Region under the GEF funded, UNEP executed and START and TWAS implemented project: Assessment of Impact and Adaptation to Climate Change.
He is currently the Coordinator of another Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded, UNEP implemented and African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) executed project on integrating vulnerability and adaptation to climate change into sustainable development policy planning and implementation in Eastern and Southern Africa: KENYA Pilot Project Design: Increasing Community Resilience to Drought in Makueni District. He is also a member of the team in the project Equatorial Africa Deposition Network similarly funded by GEF and administered by UNEP.
Professor Wandiga was also Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration and Finances) of the University (1987-1994). He was subsequently appointed as the Co-coordinator of the Policy and Planning Task Group of the Ministry of Education (1991), a US$60 million The World Bank credit to Kenya Government; elected as Kenya’s representative to the Executive Board of UNESCO (1995-1999), President of the External Relations and Program Commission of the Board (1997-1999), member of the General Committee and the Advisory Committee on Environment of the International Council for Science (ICSU) (1999-2002). Fellow: Kenya National Academy of Sciences (1986); World Innovation Foundation (2002-); International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) (2004- ); African Academy of Sciences (AAS) (2006-), Royal Society of Chemistry (2010), Member: American Chemical Society (2010). The International Jury UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the popularization of Science (1999-present); Member of the Jury, L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for women, Condensed Matter Science (Physics and Chemistry) 2004; member of the Board: UNESCO’s International Basic Sciences Programme (IBSP) (2004 – to date); member of the Advisory Board, IDRC/DfID Project: Climate Change Adaptation Support Programme for Action Research and Capacity Development in Africa (CCAA) (2006-2008). Chair, Government of Kenya Taskforce on the development of national strategy for University Education (2006-2008).
