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Full Name
  
Njuguna Ndung'u

Name
  
Njuguna Ndung'u

Nationality
  
Kenyan

Role
  
Economist


Occupation
  
Central Bank Governor

Years active
  
2007 - 2015

Home town
  
Nairobi

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Born
  
1960 (age 54–55)
Kenya

Alma mater
  
University of Nairobi (Bachelor of Arts in Economics) (Master of Arts in Economics) University of Gothenburg (Doctor of Philosophy in Economics)

Title
  
Former Governor Central Bank of Kenya

Books
  
Specifying and Estimating Partial Equilibrium Models for Use in Macro Models: A Road Map for the KIPPRA-Treasury Macro Model

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Education
  
University of Gothenburg

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Professor Njuguna S. Ndung'u is a Kenyan economist, university professor and economic researcher. He is the former Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, a position he occupied for two consecutive four-year terms, from March 2007 until March 2015.

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Background and education

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He was born in central Kenya in 1960. He studied economics at the University of Nairobi, earning both a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Master of Arts in Economics from the university. His Doctor of Philosophy, also in economics, was obtained from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

Work history

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Before his appointment as Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, Ndung'u was the director of training at the African Economic Research Consortium. He has lectured in advanced economic theory and econometrics at the University of Nairobi, where he was an associate professor of economics. He also worked as a regional programme specialist for the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office, Nairobi, of the International Development Research Centre, Canada; and at the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis as a principal analyst/researcher and head of the Macroeconomic and Economic Modelling Division.

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Ndung'u has had extensive research and teaching work in various fields of economics, including macroeconomics, microeconomics, econometrics, and poverty reduction. A long-time researcher and trainer with the AERC and MEFMI network, he has published in international journals as well as chapters in various books on economic policy issues, inflation, interest rate and exchange rate issues, financial management, public sector growth, external debt, financial liberalization in Anglophone Africa, structural adjustment, as well as on employment and labour market issues.

References

Njuguna Ndung'u Wikipedia