Margaret Jepkoech Kamar (born 28 April 1959) is a Kenyan politician and a former deputy speaker of the Senate of Kenya. She is the first elected female Deputy Speaker in the history of the Kenyan Senate.She belongs to the Jubilee Alliance Party. She was first elected to represent the Uasin Gishu County in the Senate of Kenya since 2017 after the 2017 Kenyan parliamentary election.
Biography
Kamar was born on 28 April 1959 in Keiyo, Kenya. She obtained a BSc. Hon. in Agriculture in Soil and Water Conservation. She later obtained a Med Soil Science from McGill University in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Soil and Water Conservation from the Faculty of Forestry and Conservation of the University of Toronto.
In 1988, she served as Soils Consultant at UNEP during the development of the Desertification Map. She became a professor in Soil Science at Moi University in 1999 and held various positions at the university.
From 1999 to 2006, she was a member of the East African Legislative Assembly and chaired the Environment, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Tourism committee. She also led the delegation to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) to South Africa in 2002.
Between 2008 and 2010, she was the delegation leader to the African, Caribbean and Pacific and European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly (ACP-EU JPA). She also served as the Assistant Minister Environment and Mineral Resources from 2010 to 2011 and Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology from 2011 to 2013.
In 2013, she became the director at the International Centre for Research in Sustainable Development, a non-governmental organisation.
References
- "PARTIES & COALITIONS". Mzalendo.
- Members Of The 10th Parliament Archived 2008-07-01 at the Wayback Machine. Parliament of Kenya. Accessed June 19, 2008.
- Frantzius, Ina Von (2004). "World Summit on Sustainable Development Johannesburg 2002: A Critical Analysis and Assessment of the Outcomes". Environmental Politics. 13:2 (2): 467–473. doi:10.1080/09644010410001689214. S2CID 217506365 – via Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar". International Resource Panel. 14 March 2017. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
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