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About Founding Chair
Irũngũ Houghton has advised and held national governments, international and continental multi-lateral processes publicly accountable for the last thirty years. He currently serves as Amnesty International Kenya Executive Director. As Amnesty’s spokesperson and chief strategist in Kenya, he leads a team of committed investigative researchers and campaigners working to end human rights abuses and realise the Constitution of Kenya.
Irũngũ has also worked with most of biggest NGO brands in the world including Actionaid, Oxfam, Care, GreenPeace, London School of Economics and WWF among others. He also the founding Chairperson of the Kilimani Project Foundation, a community foundation committed to creating livability and workability in the local community in which he lives. His public interest campaigns with others have received awards and citations from the African Union, New Partnership for Africa’s Development, Nation Media Group, New African, Architectural Association of Kenya and Sabre Africa Awards over the last decade.
Widely known as an inspirational speaker, change facilitator and skillful moderator, Irũngũ has published a weekly newspaper column for the last six years and is an analyst of choice on Kenya for the national and international media. He is also the author of the recently published “Dialogue and Dissent: A Constitution in Search of a Country” available on either Amazon and RafuBooks. He is married and father to seven adult children. Irũngũ holds two degrees from the University of Dar es Salaam and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.