Margaret Kanyiri Kobia is a Kenyan who was nominated by President Uhuru Kenyatta as Cabinet Secretary for the Public Service, Youth, and Gender Affairs, on 26 January 2018.
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Margaret Kobia's mother was a farmer and housewife and her father was a police officer.
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Margaret Kobia is the first-born in a family of seven siblings, five sisters, and two brothers.
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Margaret Kobia then studied at Alliance Girls High School, which she joined in 1972, for both her O-Level and A-Level education, graduating in 1977.
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Right after her first degree, Margaret Kobia started teaching at Ngara Girls' High School in 1981.
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In 1992, Margaret Kobia was appointed Senior Lecturer in Education at Kenya Science Teachers' College.
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Margaret Kobia then returned to teaching, at Strathmore University, as a senior lecturer in management, Entrepreneurship and Research Methodology.
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In 2005, Margaret Kobia was appointed the director, Kenya Institute of Administration, now the Kenya School of Government, serving in that capacity until 2012, when she was appointed the chairperson of the Kenya Public Service Commission, the first Kenyan woman to serve in that position.
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Margaret Kobia is a married mother of three children, one son and two daughters.
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Margaret Kobia was elected as the Vice President and board member of the Commonwealth Association of Public Administration and Management, in October 2014.
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Margaret Kobia is a fellow at the Kenya Institute of Management and at the Institute of Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya.