Prof. Peter Anyang' Nyong'o

Prof. Peter Anyang' Nyong'o was born in Ratta, Kisumu, Kenya in 1945. He completed his undergraduate studies at Uganda's Makerere University, where he was awarded a 1st class honours degree in Political Science. He served as Guild president of Makerere in 1969/70. He thereafter proceeded to his graduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Chicago, where he obtained his Master's and PhD in Political Science in 1977.

Nyong'o took teaching positions at the University of Nairobi, where he was a Professor of Political Science and a visiting Professor in universities in Mexico and Addis Ababa, where he served until 1987, before taking up the position of head of programs at the African Academy of Sciences.

He is a former Secretary-General of Orange Democratic Movement. From 2003 to 2005, Nyong'o served as the Minister for Planning and National Development, and from 2008 to 2013 he was the Minister for Medical Services. He is currently serving as the Governor for Kisumu County after serving as the Senator from 2013 to 2017.

From October to December of 2013, Nyong'o was a Brundtland Senior Leadership Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and he also participated as a speaker on Voices in Leadership, a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health webcast series, in a session titled, "Linking Poverty Reduction to Improved Access to Health Care: Experiences from Kenya".