Martin Mbaya, an alumnus of Strathmore University, is among 13 students selected to the Harvard

Martin Mbaya, Harvard Management Fellow

Management Fellowship for the 2008-2009 academic year. With the fellowship Mr. Mbaya returns to Harvard after graduating from Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) with a Masters degree in Public Policy in June 2008 with a concentration in international trade and finance. “This means I will spend the next 12 months at Harvard University’s Office of Treasury Management getting to understand first hand how a global university functions from the perspective of central management,” Mr. Mbaya said.

The Harvard University Management Fellowship Program was created in July 2003 by then-President Lawrence Summers to recruit the best of Harvard’s talented graduates to work on key Central Administrative initiatives and ultimately to attract some to careers in higher education administration. (For more on the fellowship see: http://employment.harvard.edu/fellow.) 

Since 2006, Mr Mbaya has worked closely with Strathmore Business School (SBS). “It is my long term desire to continue being heavily involved in Kenya’s (and East Africa’s) higher education sector especially with respect to Kenya’s Vision 2030. Strathmore will continue to be a strong platform for collaborating on this goal. I remain plugged into the efforts at SBS particularly around the Strategic Leadership and Performance Management related programs and the development of the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness,” Mr Mbaya said.

Mr. Mbaya is also a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While a student at MIT, he was instrumental in launching the Strathmore-MIT/AITI (Africa Internet Technology Initiative) Program. In the program, MIT has been sending its students annually to train budding computer programmers at Strathmore University and Alliance High School since year 2000.