Former Attorney- General Githu Muigai is set to join the list of
high flying corporate chiefs and State officers taking back their
wealth of experiences to university students.
Prof
Muigai said he’ll be back in the classroom from June after more than 35
years career in law spanning public and private sectors.
“I
am starting my teaching job in the next six months,” Prof Muigai told
the Business Daily. “I should have started earlier but I still wanted to
enjoy my leave in full.”
He, however, did not reveal the university he's heading to.
Last
year in February, President Uhuru Kenyatta made a surprise announcement
of Prof Muigai’s resignation from State Law Office where he served as
the AG for six and a half years. He has since been replaced by Justice
Paul Kihara Kariuki who at the time served as president of the Court of
Appeal
He is presently serving as a member of UN Human
Rights Council’ working group on business and human rights, a team made
up of independent experts who report and advise on human rights from a
thematic or country-specific perspective.
He holds a
bachelor's degree in Law degree from the University of Nairobi, a
Master's degree in International Law from Columbia University School of
Law, and a doctorate degree in law.
His areas of
expertise include commercial litigation and arbitration, constitutional
and administrative law, ICT law, insurance and banking law, investments
Law, mergers & acquisitions law and public procurement law.
His decision to go back to lecture halls puts him in the same
path taken by public figures such as Prof Anyang’ Nyong’o, a former
Health minister now serving as Kisumu Governor. Such leaders are
believed to play important role in helping universities to bridge the
gap between what is taught in lecture halls and its application in the
job market.
Former Kenya Power
chief executive Ben Chumo and Retirement Benefits Authority boss Edward
Odundo have lately been featured among PhD-wielding business leaders who
at times act as part-time lecturers.
Investment firm TransCentury’s
youthful chief executive Gachao Kiuna, Silas Masinde Simiyu of Geothermal Development Company, former Sasini
managing director and now a director of a UK charity Caesar Mwangi, and
Philip Kamau, a senior director in charge of finance at the African
Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), are also known to visit universities
to teach business and management-related courses.
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