Board Members
Meet Our Board Members
Our Board of Directors champions our strategic vision and maintains rigorous fiduciary oversight.
By aligning our resources with our core objectives, they serve as the architects of our organizational growth and accountability
Capt. Kamal is a distinguished aviation executive with over 29 years of leadership experience across the Middle East and African markets.
Rising from frontline operations to the C-suite, he has led the transformation of four airlines through senior executive roles, most recently serving as Operations Director at Air Arabia and Chief Operations and Executive Officer at Iraqi Airways, where he delivered sustainable growth, enhanced operational performance, and strong organizational recognition.
Mr. Kingori was elected to the Board on 14th June 2024. He has over 30 years of extensive public sector experience gained locally and internationally. During his long career, he has had many interactions and engagements with the private sector institutions. Festus is a seasoned professional with a deep knowledge and experience in public financial management and public policy, as well as corporate governance, in both public and private sector institutions in which Government has investment interests.
He has participated in many successful corporate restructurings, including some of the most successful corporate turnarounds and IPOs in Kenya. As a seasoned senior officer at the National Treasury, he participated in many capacities in policy-oriented transactions. He was constantly a key member in transaction teams focussed on corporate restructuring, divestiture and privatization, and often as a team leader of key transaction sub-committees.
Festus has extensive board experience and, over a period of more than twenty years, served as Alternate Director representing the National Treasury, on boards of many state corporations and private companies in which Government has investment interest. He was the pioneer secondee by the GoK on a six-month practical and professional programme to the World Bank in 2006, where he gained valuable exposure to perspectives of multilateral agencies as well as public financial management in other countries.
Festus is trained in corporate governance and is a full member of the Kenya Institute of Management (KIM) as well as the Institute of Certified Investment and Financial Analysts (ICIFA).
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the University of Nairobi. He also holds a post graduate certificate in Investment Appraisal and Management from Harvard University, among others. He has also undergone extensive training in general management, strategic leadership and financial management locally and abroad.
Ms. Teresia Mbaika, CBS, is the Principal Secretary, State Department for Aviation and Aerospace Development (being the representative of the Ministry of Roads and Transport, on the Board). Ms. Mbaika previously served as the Principal Secretary, State Department for Devolution. She brings to the Board over a decade of experience in corporate governance, resource mobilization, strategic management, leadership, and public finance management. In her distinguished career, she has served as a director at the Nuclear Power and Energy Agency (NuPEA), and the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA). She has also served as the Secretary to the National Government Constituency Development Fund Board (NG-CDF), Kaiti Constituency, where she provided strategic leadership in financial management and governance oversight of the Fund.
PS Mbaika holds a Master of Science Degree in Health Economics and Policy from The University of Nairobi, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Health from Kenyatta University.
Alex Mbuvi was appointed as the alternate director to the Principal Secretary, State Department of Transport In December 2023. He is Chief State Counsel at the Office of the Attorney General and Department of Justice, currently on deployment at the Ministry of Roads and Transport. Alex has previously sat in the Board of Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA), and Kenya Deposit Protection Corporation (KDPC) as alternate director. He currently sits in Engineers Board of Kenya in the same capacity.
Alex holds a Bachelor of Social Laws, Bachelor of Law and a Post Graduate Diploma in Law. He is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
Mr. Raphael Owino Otieno is the Director General of the Public Debt Management Office, bringing with him nearly three decades of extensive experience in economics, public debt management, and fiscal policy. Prior to his current role, he was the Head of the Monetary Policy Division at the Central Bank of Kenya, where he made significant contributions to Kenya’s economic stability.
Mr. Otieno holds a Master’s Degree in Economic Policy from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, Japan, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Nairobi. His distinguished career includes key roles such as Acting Director of Research at the Central Bank of Kenya and Director of the Debt Management Programme at the Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa (MEFMI), an inter-governmental organization headquartered in Harare, Zimbabwe, serving 14 member countries.
His expertise in public debt management, macroeconomic analysis, and research has been honed through various roles in Kenya’s public service, including positions within the Ministries of Finance and Planning. Additionally, he has served as a Policy Analyst at the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) and as a Senior Researcher at the Central Bank of Kenya. Mr. Otieno began his professional journey at the National Treasury, where he rose to the position of Advisor to both the Economic Secretary and the Minister for Planning before transitioning to KIPPRA and later the Central Bank of Kenya.
Mr. Otieno has also made substantial contributions on the global stage, serving in advisory capacities or as a member of various task forces and committees under the World Bank, IMF, United Nations, and the East African Community (EAC). He is a published author, with contributions to significant works such as “Kenya: Policies for Prosperity” published by Oxford University Press in 2010, and as an editor for “Economic Management in a Hyperinflationary Environment: The Political Economy of Zimbabwe, 1980-2008,” also published by Oxford University Press.
Mr. Buckley brings to Kenya Airways Plc four decades of wide-ranging experience in the commercial aviation business. His career has included time working for an airline in Martinique, French West Indies, commercial and management positions with de Havilland Canada in Toronto, and senior management positions with Airbus in Toulouse, where retired in 2020, as the Executive Vice President, responsible for all of Airbus’s business, commercial strategy and customers relations in Europe, Asia and the Pacific. He has built top-level relationships across the industry and been intimately involved in the fleet and network planning process with many major airlines worldwide.
Mr. Buckley has served on the boards of several companies over the years, including connectivity specialist OnAir, majority owned by SITA; Nordic Aviation Capital, the largest lessor of regional aircraft worldwide; EFW, majority owned by ST Aerospace in Singapore; and Emerald Airlines, an Aer Lingus franchise carrier based in Dublin. He is a founding shareholder at Emerald Airlines. In 2018, Mr. Buckley was honoured to be awarded the ‘Chevalier de l’Ordre National de Mérite’ by the French government, for services to France.
Mr. Buckley holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and French from Aston University in Birmingham, England.
The Board congratulates and welcomes Mr. Buckley to Kenya Airways and wishes him the best in his new role.
Mr. Philip Wambugu has over 36 years working experience most of which have been in the infrastructure and services related fields. He has previously worked with Kenya Airways Plc, Air East Africa Ltd (consultant), APEC Engineering (consultant), the Center for Transportation and Environmental Studies (Nairobi) as a Director, recently retired from the East African Community Secretariat after 19 years of distinguished service. He is a Director at KQ Lenders Ltd since 2017 and was Senior Consultant for Africa for Google Loon responsible for overflight rights across Africa between 2018 to March 2021.
He has extensive knowledge on the regional and continental dynamics of infrastructure planning and development and understands fully the issues affecting airlines, including the liberalization on air transport and aviation operations.
Mr. Wambugu holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree specializing in Economics from the Nairobi University and a Master of Science in Transportation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge USA.
Habil joined Kenya Airways Plc in March 2021. He has over 19 years Corporate and Commercial law experience having worked in similar senior levels at National Bank of Kenya Limited, Kenya Reinsurance Corporation Limited, and Diamond Trust Bank Kenya Limited (DTB), all publicly listed institutions.
Habil holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) Degree from The University of Nairobi, a Diploma in law from the Kenya School of Law. He is a graduate of the Global Executive Master of Business Administration (GEMBA) Degree programme from the United States International University in collaboration with the Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York. He has attended various professional management and corporate governance capacity building courses.
Habil is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and a Certified Public Secretary. He is a member of good standing with the Law Society of Kenya (LSK), the Institute of Certified Secretaries of Kenya (ICSK) and the Institute of Directors (IOD).
