Angellah Kairuki

September 10, 1976

Previously served as Deputy Minister for Lands,Housing and Human Settlement as well as Constitutional and Legal Affairs. Angellah Kairuki has also worked in the Private Sector as Head of Department of the Ethics, Compliance and Governance at VODACOM Group PTY. She has an Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Hull and a PgDL in Legal Practice from Staffordshire University. In 2012 Angellah took part in the inaugural Leadership for Change in Africa programme by the African Leadership Institute, and was on the list of Forbes magazine’ 20 Young Power African Women in 2013. In 2014 she was chosen by the World Economic Forum to be a Young Global Leader. In 2015 she signed an open letter which the ONE Campaign had been collecting signatures foreign The letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa respectively, which will start to set the priorities in development funding before a main United Nations summit in September 2015 that will establish new development goals for the generation.

Angellah Kairuki

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Career

Previously served as Deputy Minister for Lands,Housing and Human Settlement as well as Constitutional and Legal Affairs. Angellah Kairuki has also worked in the Private Sector as Head of Department of the Ethics, Compliance and Governance at VODACOM Group PTY. She has an Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Hull and a PgDL in Legal Practice from Staffordshire University. In 2012 Angellah took part in the inaugural Leadership for Change in Africa programme by the African Leadership Institute, and was on the list of Forbes magazine’ 20 Young Power African Women in 2013.

In 2014 she was chosen by the World Economic Forum to be a Young Global Leader.

In 2015 she signed an open letter which the ONE Campaign had been collecting signatures foreign The letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa respectively, which will start to set the priorities in development funding before a main United Nations summit in September 2015 that will establish new development goals for the generation.

Politics

Prior to joining politics, she worked in the Attorney General’s Chambers as Parliamentary Draftsman and as a State Attorney in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution. She is also a member of the National Executive Committee of the ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) and Member of the National Council of UWT, the ruling party’s women wing.

Membership

In 2011 she was appointed by the Speaker of the National Assembly to represent Tanzania in the Inter-Parliamentary Union (Inter-Parliamentary Union) and she was elected by the Inter-Parliamentary Union assembly to become a Member of Human Rights Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.Currently she holds the portfolio of Secretary General of the Tanzania Women Parliamentary Group. Angellah is an advocate of the High Court of Tanzania and a Member of Tanzania Institute of Arbitrators.

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