Robinson Njeru Githae | |
Term Start: | 18 November 2014 |
Term End: | 3 May 2019 |
Office2: | Minister for Finance |
Term Start2: | 2011 |
Term End2: | 2013 |
President2: | Mwai Kibaki |
Predecessor2: | Uhuru Kenyatta |
Successor2: | Henry Rotich |
Office3: | Member of Parliament for Ndia Constituency |
Term Start3: | 2003 |
Term End3: | 2013 |
Birth Place: | Kenya |
Nationality: | Kenyan |
Party: | Party of National Unity |
Spouse: | Alice[1] |
Children: | 3 |
Relations: | Micere Githae Mugo Mrs. Eunice Muringo KiereiniPurity Gathoni Macharia |
Alma Mater: | University of Nairobi Kenya School of LawHonorary Doctorate degree by the Commonwealth University. |
Robinson Njeru Githae is a Kenyan politician. He belongs to the Party of National Unity and was elected to represent the Ndia Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya since the Kenyan parliamentary election, 2002.[2] He has served as assistant minister in the ministries of justice, transport and local government before being appointed a minister in the ministries of Nairobi Metropolitan then Kenya's finance minister. He was appointed by President Uhuru Kenyatta as Kenya- US ambassador on 14/08/2014. He was later transferred to Vienna in May 2019 as Kenya’s ambassador to Austria where he is currently serving.
He has three well-known sisters: former Chief Nursing Officer Eunice Muringo Kiereini, the writer Micere Githae Mugo and Purity Gathoni Macharia, co-founder and co-owner of Royal Media Services. Their father was Solomon Githendui Githae (1904-2007).[3] In May 2019 he was appointed as Kenyan ambassador to Vienna, Austria.[4]