Hon. Prof. Margaret Kamar, MP

 


Personal Details

  • Date of Birth: 28th April 1959

  • Religion: Christian


Current Commitee Membership

  • Speaker's panel – Temporary Deputy Speaker

  • Budget Committee - Vice Chairperson

  • Member, The Pan-African Parliament

  • Kenya Women Parliamentary Association – Member

  • Fiscal Analysis & Appropriations Committee – Member

  • ACP - EU – Member


Employment History

  • 2008 - Kenya National Assembly Elected MP for Eldoret East Constituency

  • 2002 - 2006: Deputy Chancellor, Research & Extension – Moi University

  • 2006 - Member, Board of Management, Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI)/ Chair

  • 2003 - 2006: Member, B.O.G Kapkenda Girls Secondary School

  • 2000 -2006: Member, B.O.G. St. Patrick's Secondary School Iten, Keiyo District.

  • 2001 - 2006: Member – East African Legislative Assembly.

  • 2000 - 2006: (B.O.G.) Kimwarer Secondary School, Keiyo District.

  • 1999 - 2002: Member, Kenyatta University Council

  • 1999 - 2002: Member, Board of Directors, Moi Teaching & Referral Hospital

  • 1999 - 2002: Member, (B.O.G), Hill School, Eldoret

  • 1999 - 2004: Member, Board of Directors, Eldoret Water and Sanitation Company Ltd.

  • 1998 - 1999: Ag. Deputy Vice Chancellor – Moi University

  • 1997 - 2002: Principal, Chepkoilel Campus, Moi University

  • 1997 - 2001: Member, Project Advisory Committee of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Community Based Wetlands Project: Suswa Swamp and Lake Bogoria Wetland.

  • 1993 - 1997: Chairlady Chepkoilel Campus Primary. School


Education

  • 1988 - 1992: PhD. University of Toronto, Ontario CANADA

  • 1985 – 1986: Med. Agriculture – McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  • 1980 – 1983: B.Sc. Agriculture (Hons. Soil Science) - Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India.

  • 1977 – 1978: “A” Level - The Highlands (Moi Girls) High School Eldoret

  • 1977 – 1978: “O” Level - Kapkenda Girls Secondary School, Keiyo District

  • 1966 – 1973: Koptega Primary School, Keiyo/Marakwet District

 

LATEST NEWS (JANUARY 2012)

-KEWOPA will conduct voter education and information foras for women in political parties in 16 Constituencies.

- KEWOPA will hold a policy briefing forum to lobby national policy makers and legislators on correct interpretation of Affirmative Action in politics.

-KEWOPA will hold a stakeholders consultative forum on the implementation of the affirmative action principle of not more than 2/3 gender representation in elective bodies.

-KEWOPA will hold advocacy forums for the abandonment of FGM/C in Garissa County.

KEWOPA IN THE MEDIA

“Shebesh Sharpens Eve Sisters” The Standard 2.12.2011

“Wangari Maathai’s green vision lives on.”

“Time for Women to reap big.”

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