Njuguna Ndung’u

Chair of the Advisory Board of TDB Academy

Njuguna Ndung’u is currently the Chair of the Advisory Board of TDB Academy. He is the former Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning of Kenya. He has also previously been the Executive Director of the African Economic Research Consortium(AERC), a Pan African premier capacity building network. He is also a former Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, where he served from 2007 to 2015. He is an associate professor of economics at the University of Nairobi, Kenya (on leave of absence). He has been a member of Global Advisory Council (GAC) of the World Economic Forum. He holds a PhD in economic from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Currently he is a Member of the Brookings Africa Growth  Initiative (AGI) Distinguished Advisory Group, a Member of the Advisory Committee of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, AFI, that coordinates financial inclusion policies in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and a Senior Advisor for the UNCDF-based Better Than Cash Alliance.