Adan Mohammed becomes the new Commissioner General today. Below is the brief biography of the first class honours graduate:
Date of Birth: December 1, 1963
Place of birth: El Wak, Mandera County
He attended Mandera Primary School, where he was reportedly one of only two pupils who proceeded to high school. He later joined Kangaru High School in Embu before enrolling at the University of Nairobi, graduating in 1989 with a First Class Bachelor of Commerce degree.
At the University of Nairobi, he excelled particularly in accounting and analytical subjects.
Mohamed began his professional career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he trained as a chartered accountant in London. He later moved into consulting and worked with Shell in Nigeria for three years before pursuing a Master of Business Administration degree at Harvard Business School, which he completed in 1998.
After returning to Kenya, he joined Barclays Bank Kenya as Finance Director and steadily rose through the ranks to become Managing Director for East and West Africa.
Mohamed later transitioned into government service after being nominated in 2013 by former President Uhuru Kenyatta as Cabinet Secretary for Industrialisation in the first administration under the 2010 Constitution.
He was sworn into office on May 15, 2013, where he spearheaded industrialisation and enterprise development initiatives aimed at boosting manufacturing and investment.
Today he was appointed as the KRA commissioner General.
