Njeri Karuru has over 28 years of experience in leading and managing programmes and projects in Peace Building, Governance, Security, Humanitarian Assistance and Development, Gender, Capacity Building and Knowledge Management. She also has experience in managing and leading teams in sub-Saharan Africa. She has previously worked with UN Women, Nigeria, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and USAID Regional Office for East and Southern Africa, among other organizations. She has been working as Consultant since November 2018 in research and management. Her most recent work has been with the African Women Studies Centre (Women’s Economic Empowerment Hub), where she is a Principal Investigator in the Affirmative Action Cluster in a Bill and Melinda Gates funded Women’s Economic Empowerment programme. In 2018 she was a Consultant with UN Women where she developed the Kenya National Action Plan on Women Peace and Security. She has also been a Consultant with the International Foundation for Electoral Systems where she led the Intersectional Gender Assessment on Elections and Electoral Processes.

She is a PhD candidate at the African Women Studies Centre and has degrees in Security Sector Management (MSc, Cranfield), Anthropology (MA, Nairobi), Political Science (BA, Nairobi), journalism (PGD, Nairobi) and Women’s Law (PGD, Zimbabwe).