Honourable Minister of Education, Prof. George Magoha has emerged as Africa Public Sector Magazine’s “Minister of the Week”.
The Minister of the week ranking is a weekly accreditation of Top Ministers in Africa, with high scrutiny, the best performing Minister is been recognized and listed.
The highly-rated APS Minister of the Week is a weekly review of the performances of the African government’s ministers.
The Hardworking and Vibrant Prof. George Magoha born in 1952, was sworn in as Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Education, on March 26, 2019. He is a Professor of Transplant Surgery. Before his appointment as Cabinet Secretary, Prof. Magoha was the Chairman of the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) where he served for 3years. Due to his diligence he was to service, he is an Honorary Consultant Surgeon and Urologist at Kenyatta National Hospital and Nairobi Hospital.
Before joining KNEC, Prof. Magoha, he served as Vice-Chancellor, University of Nairobi for 10 years judiciously. Previously, he was Chairman of the African Network of Scientific and Technological Institutions and the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board.
Prof. Magoha as an assiduous leader who leads by example, he served as the President of the Association of Medical Councils of Africa. He also served as the Chairman of Kenya Association of Urological Surgeons (KAUS) for six years.
Other Achievement and Milestones;
- Prof. Magoha was elected President of the Association of African Universities (AAU) in 2011 and served for two years. He has been serving as a member of the AAU executive board since 2005.
- Prof. Magoha served as a Commissioner at the Commission for University Education (CUE), previously called Commission for Higher Education (CHE) for 8years.
- For his exemplary service, Prof. Magoha the Kenya Medical Association honoured Prof Magoha with Distinguished Service Award for services he offered to the Medical Profession in 2008. He represented the African Continent in the Confucius Council in Beijing, China from 2009-2015.
- Prof is trained in executive management at the Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, and has many international professional honours and awards. Locally, the awards include Chief of the Order of Burning Spear (CBS), Moran of the Burning Spear (MBS) and Elder of the Burning Spear (EBS).
- Prof. Magoha established his career in Surgery at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital as an intern and rose to the position of Senior Resident and Clinical Lecturer in Surgery. He also served as a Lecturer in the same hospital and a Consultant Surgeon in various leading hospitals in Lagos, Nigeria.
- Prof. Magoha joined the University of Nairobi as a Lecturer in Urological Surgery in 1988 and rose through the ranks to become a full Professor of Surgery in 2000. He served in various administrative positions at the University rising from Chairman of the Academic Department of Surgery in 1999, Dean of the School of Medicine, Principal of the College of Health Sciences, Deputy Vice-Chancellor in charge of Administration and Finance to Vice-Chancellor in January 2005.
- During his tenure as the Vice-Chancellor he steered the University to achieve “Excellent” rating in the Performance Contracting Evaluation for government institutions. The University of Nairobi is the only government institution that has ever attained an “Excellent” rating to date. The University also experienced phenomenal growth and improved the quality of its academic programmes, infrastructure and work environment under his leadership.
- Due to his stint in education and vast experience, Prof. Magoha has published more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and supervised to completion over 40 Master of Medicine (Surgery) students.
