Christopher Kirigua

Christopher Kirigua, OGW was appointed as alternate Director, to the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury and Planning, with effect from 10th February 2021.

Christopher serves as the Director General of Public Private Partnerships at the National Treasury. He is a seasoned investment banker who worked with the Standard Chartered Bank for over 17 years, prior to joining the public service in December 2020.

Christopher was a co-chair of a strategic committee in the United Nations Global Investors for Sustainable Development, focused on widening longer-term investments mainly in emerging markets where it is needed most.

At the Standard Chartered Bank, he held a number of senior leadership roles, with his last posting having been the Executive Director and Regional Head of Sustainable Finance for Africa and Middle East.

His current role in Government, entails mobilising private capital to support sustainable development of commercially viable projects which will further create fiscal space and continue to develop sustainable infrastructure while enabling the Government to focus more on social investments.

Christopher has a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Roosevelt University, has participated in an Executive Development Programme Behavioural Finance with INSEAD Business School and is an Emerging Leader Graduate from Standard Chartered Bank.