Joseph Njoroge

Dr. Eng. Joseph Njoroge, the Principal Secretary, State Department for Energy, was born in 1958. He holds a First Class Honours degree in Electrical Engineering, Master of Business Administration with a major in strategic management and a doctor of philosophy (PhD). He is a Chartered Electrical Engineer, a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology UK, a registered consulting engineer, and is also a fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Kenya. He is a member of the Institute of Directors (Kenya).

Dr. Eng. Joseph Njoroge joined Kenya Power in 1980 and rose through the ranks to become the Managing Director from June 2007 until his current appointment to the position of Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum in May 2013 and became the Principal Secretary in the State Department for Energy following reorganisation of the government structure. He is a distinguished electrical engineer with a career spanning three decades and has wide experience in power engineering and management.