Mike Eldon

Mike Eldon is Chairman of the Council of KCA University, and is a non-executive director of an insurance company, of one in the water and energy sectors, and of AFIDEP (the African Institute for Policy Development), a think tank that supports the actualisation of the Demographic Dividend. Mike is an economics graduate of University College London and a Sloan Fellow of the London Business School. He entered the IT field in 1967, arriving in Kenya in 1977 to become general manager of a multinational computer company, and he has lived there ever since. He was a pioneer in the development of the use of IT in Kenya, and was deeply involved with the development of Kenya’s first national ICT policy. He is a Senior Leadership Adviser to the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), and has been a faculty member in transformative leadership for the Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications in their joint programme with the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a Global Partner of the World Bank’s Collaborative Leadership for Development initiative, and runs high level workshops on leadership in Kenya and beyond, as well as being an executive coach. He was a founding director and vice-chairman of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (Kenya’s private sector umbrella body), where he is now a member of the Advisory Council. Since 2007 he has been writing a column for Business Daily, having now published over 300 articles, and his 2009 book Kenyans, Yes we Can! is a collection of his articles and speeches.