Ratemo Michieka

Infobox_President | name=RATEMO MICHIEKA
nationality=Kenyan


order=1st vice chancellor J.K.U.A.T
term_start=1989
term_end=2003
vicepresident=
predecessor=
successor=Ali Mazrui
birth_date=
birth_place=Kisii, Kisii District, Nyanza Province, Kenya


party=

Ratemo Michieka is a former director-general of the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) in Kenya. He was dismissed in June, 2006 [Kenya Times, June 20, 2006: " [http://www.timesnews.co.ke/20jun06/nwsstory/news13.html Kibaki makes appointments] "]

He for a longtime worked in education and agricultural policy in eastern Africa. He earned three Rutgers’ degrees, including a master’s in agricultural education and vocational technical agriculture, and a doctorate in weed science. He returned to his native Kenya, where he taught and later became chairman of the Department of Crop Science at the University of Nairobi. In 1994, he was named vice chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Nairobi, Kenya, a post equivalent to a U.S. university president. He hed the post until 2003, when he shifted to the ministry on environment [Daily Nation, March 26, 2003: " [http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/26032003/News/News12.html Cheserem, Eshiwani sacked in major shake-up of govt institutions] "] .

Mr. Michieka chairs the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), considered the finest of its kind in Africa, and the Kenya Education Network. He has held administrative positions at the World Bank and the United Nations Environment Program. He also has consulted for CARE and the Swedish International Development Agency. In 1997, the Cook College Alumni Association honored Mr. Michieka with the George Hammell Cook Distinguished Alumni Award.

Politics

In 2008 Ratemo Michieka ran for the parliamentary seat of Nyaribari Masaba.He came in third behind Prof.Sam Ongeri and Dr.Hezron Manduku.

References

3.Rutgers university hall of distinguished allumni [http://www.alumni.rutgers.edu/news/hda.php?show=138]

4. Kyoto protocol compliance committee [http://unfccc.int/files/kyoto_mechanisms/compliance/application/pdf/cc-1-2006-4.pdf]