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Musimbi Kanyoro
Musimbi Kanyoro is a human rights advocate, philanthropist, and academic. She is the chairperson of the International Board of the United World Colleges and independent member at London School of Economics and Political Science. She is also the founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians ("the Circle") and its first coordinator (1996-2002).
Musimbi Kanyoro was born in Migori County, Kenya, where she attended primary school before joining Alliance Girls School in Nairobi.
As a student in the 1970s, she supported the movement against apartheid in South Africa.
Kanyoro earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Nairobi and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. Kanyoro later earned a doctorate in feminist theology at the San Francisco Theological Seminary.
She was also a visiting scholar of Hebrew and the Old Testament at Harvard Divinity School.
Kanyoro was the executive secretary, Desk for Women in Church and Society at the Lutheran World Federation from 1982 to 1997. She also edited the book In Search of a Round Table: Gender, Theology and Church Leadership, in 1998. She worked as a translation consultant for the United Bible Societies. From 1998 to 2007, Kanyoro became the first non-white General Secretary of the World YWCA.
Kanyoro was director of the Population and Reproductive Health Program of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation from 2007 to 2011. She was a member of the International Steering Committee for the Beijing World Conference and led delegations to five UN World Conferences in the 1990s. From 2018 until 2019, she served on an Independent Commission on Sexual Misconduct, Accountability and Culture Change at Oxfam, co-chaired by Zainab Bangura and Katherine Sierra. Musimbi Kanyoro was the president and CEO of Global Fund for Women from 2011 to 2019.
She has served in several boards, including the Aspen Leaders Council, the CARE Board, the UN High Level Taskforce for Reproductive Health, UN Women Civil Society Advisory Board, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)’s Scientific Advisory Board and the International Board of the United World Colleges.
Musimbi Kanyoro
Musimbi Kanyoro is a human rights advocate, philanthropist, and academic. She is the chairperson of the International Board of the United World Colleges and independent member at London School of Economics and Political Science. She is also the founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians ("the Circle") and its first coordinator (1996-2002).
Musimbi Kanyoro was born in Migori County, Kenya, where she attended primary school before joining Alliance Girls School in Nairobi.
As a student in the 1970s, she supported the movement against apartheid in South Africa.
Kanyoro earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Nairobi and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. Kanyoro later earned a doctorate in feminist theology at the San Francisco Theological Seminary.
She was also a visiting scholar of Hebrew and the Old Testament at Harvard Divinity School.
Kanyoro was the executive secretary, Desk for Women in Church and Society at the Lutheran World Federation from 1982 to 1997. She also edited the book In Search of a Round Table: Gender, Theology and Church Leadership, in 1998. She worked as a translation consultant for the United Bible Societies. From 1998 to 2007, Kanyoro became the first non-white General Secretary of the World YWCA.
Kanyoro was director of the Population and Reproductive Health Program of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation from 2007 to 2011. She was a member of the International Steering Committee for the Beijing World Conference and led delegations to five UN World Conferences in the 1990s. From 2018 until 2019, she served on an Independent Commission on Sexual Misconduct, Accountability and Culture Change at Oxfam, co-chaired by Zainab Bangura and Katherine Sierra. Musimbi Kanyoro was the president and CEO of Global Fund for Women from 2011 to 2019.
She has served in several boards, including the Aspen Leaders Council, the CARE Board, the UN High Level Taskforce for Reproductive Health, UN Women Civil Society Advisory Board, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)’s Scientific Advisory Board and the International Board of the United World Colleges.
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