Naomi Rono

She was born in Kenya and attended Kenyan schools for her pre-university education. She attended Strathmore University, graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) degree, in 2006. She later obtained a postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration, obtained in 2013 from the Australian National University (ANU), in Canberra. The next year she obtained a Master of Public Policy (MPA) degree, also from ANU. She also holds a Diploma in Development Economics and International Development, awarded by the University of Amsterdam in 2014.[1][2]

For the first four years of her career, she worked as an Accountant and Projects Administrator at "IQplus Kenya Limited", a company that offers automation solutions for books of accounts and key business operations, based in Nairobi, from March 2007 until June 2011. Thereafter, for a period of six years, from August 2011 until July 2017, Ms. Rono was employed as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK), an institution based in Nairobi and mandated to develop and regulate the accountancy profession in Kenya . In August 2017, she was appointed as an Adviser in the Office of the Executive Director of the World Bank Group, where she still serves as of November 2017.[1][2]

In 2017 Naomi Rono was named among the "Top 40 Women Under 40 in Kenya", by the Business Daily Africa, an English language daily business newspaper.[2]

• Susan Oguya
• Shitsama Nyamweya
• Borna Nyaoke-Anoke

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