1. Musimbi Kanyoro was born on 30 November 1953 and is renowned for her advocacy and leadership in global human rights, philanthropy and academia.
17 Facts About Musimbi Kanyoro
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Musimbi Kanyoro is the chairperson of the International Board of the United World Colleges and independent member at London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Musimbi Kanyoro is the founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians and its first coordinator.
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Musimbi Kanyoro was born in Migori County, Kenya where she attended primary school before joining Alliance Girls School in Nairobi.
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Musimbi Kanyoro earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Nairobi and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Musimbi Kanyoro was a visiting scholar of Hebrew and the Old Testament at Harvard University.
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Musimbi Kanyoro was the Executive Secretary, Desk for Women in Church and Society at the Lutheran World Federation from 1982 to 1997.
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Musimbi Kanyoro edited the book In Search of a Round Table: Gender, Theology and Church Leadership, in 1998.
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Musimbi Kanyoro worked as a translation consultant for the United Bible Societies.
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From 1998 to 2007, Musimbi Kanyoro became the first non-white General Secretary of the World YWCA.
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Musimbi Kanyoro was director of the Population and Reproductive Health Program of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation from 2007 to 2011.
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Musimbi Kanyoro was a member of the International Steering Committee for the Beijing World Conference and led delegations to five UN World Conferences in the 1990s.
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Musimbi Kanyoro was the president and CEO of Global Fund for Women from 2011 to 2019.
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Musimbi Kanyoro served as a member of the Family Planning 2020 Reference Group.
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Musimbi Kanyoro is the member of Global Philanthropy Committee of the Council of Foundations.
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Musimbi Kanyoro served as a Member of the Board of Directors of the African Population and Health Research Centre, and was for seven years the chair of the board of ISIS Work.
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Musimbi Kanyoro serves on the boards of CARE, Intra Health, CHANGE and Legacy Memory Bank, and is a member of the World Health Organization.