Hon. Amb. Chirau Ali Mwakwere was born in 1945 at Golini, Kwale district. Mwakwere born to a very prominent Digo family attended local public schools.
From 1964 to 1966 Mwakwere underwent Teacher Education training at the then Kenyatta College, (now Kenyatta University). In 1974 he graduated with a Master of Education degree from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom and a Diploma in Education from the University of Reading.
He obtained a Master Trainer certification from the University of Connecticut, Hartford, USA and Master of Science degree in Maritime Studies and International Transport from the University of Wales in Cardiff in 1982 and 1986 respectively.
In 1987 he became a Member of the Chartered Institute of Transport, United Kingdom. From 1978 to 1979 he was the Political Secretary at the Kenyan Embassy, Saudi Arabia. In 1979 he became the pioneer Principal Bandari College in Mombasa where he served for ten years until 1989.
Mwakwere was the Deputy National Executive Officer, KANU National Secretariat from 1989 to June 1991. He then went into self employment until when he was appointed to serve as the country’s High Commissioner to Harare in June 1992. His posting at Harare had accreditation to Mozambique, Swaziland and Lesotho. He served at Harare for six years upto 1998. From 1996 to 1997 he was the special envoy to the Great Lakes Region of Africa and also served concurrently as High Commissioner.
From 1998 to 2000, he was relocated and named as the Ambassador of Kenya to United Arab Emirate based in the modern city of Abu Dhabi and was accredited to the rich island State of Qatar.
Upon retirement from the government service, Ambassador Mwakwere took a job as the Director, Business Development, Africa Region with a multinational corporation based in the Middle East. At the same time he served in the board of Kenya Commercial Bank as a director.
During the 2002 political wave, Ambassador Mwakwere joined politics less than three months before the general election and became a key member of transforming the brief-case political party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) that ended up absorbing all the KANU rebels then known as Rainbow Coalition. In the election Mwakwere he captured the Matuga parliamentary seat.
Upon entering the National Assembly he was appointed Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he served for six months (January to June 2003). In June 2003 he was elevated to the full cabinet where he was appointed the Minister for Labour and Human Resource Development where he served for one year until June 2004.
When President Mwai Kibaki reshuffled his cabinet and formed a Government of National Unity, Mwakwere was appointed to the prestigious and high profile Foreign Affairs portfolio. As the country’s top diplomat, Mwakwere represented the head of state in many international heads of state functions, such as the funerals of Pope Paul II in Rome and PLO leader and President Yasser Arafat in Cairo Egypt.
In another cabinet reshuffled, Mwakwere was again relocated this time around, to the one of the key and equally powerful Transport portfolio, where he continues to serve.
The Minister also held several offices which include Council Member of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) (1990 – 1992), Council Member at the University of Nairobi (1987 – 1991), appointed Life Governor, Agricultural Society of Kenya (ASK) in 1989 and a Deputy Director, 4th All Africa Games Secretariat, Nairobi.
Mwakwere is married to Madam Rose and they have three grown up children, two sons and a daughter.
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Current Position: Minister for Transport
MINISTERIAL POSITIONS:
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Minister for Labour and Manpower Development
Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs
DIPLOMATIC POSITIONS:
Ambassador to the U.A.E and Qatar
High Commissioner – Zimbabwe, Lesotho & Mozambique
President’s Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION:
University of Reading – Science Diploma
University of Birmingham – M. Ed
University of Wales (Cardiff) – MSc - International Transport and Maritime Studies
COURSES & TRAININGS:
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport, FCLIT
Master Trainer Programme - University of Connecticut - USA
Maritime Trainer's Course - Singapore Polytechnic
Educational Management & Administration - Moray House College, Edinburgh
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Kenyatta College
Shimo La Tewa High School (A Level)
Shimo La Tewa High School (O Level)
Kwale Primary & Intermediate School
WORKING EXPERIENCE:
(Continuously in government service since 1967)
Deputy National Executive Officer, KANU HQ
Principal - Bandari College
Political Secretary – Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Curriculum Developer - Head of Educational Research & Evaluation (K.I.E),
Lecturer - Kagumo Teachers' College
Lecturer - Mombasa Polytechnic
Headmaster - Krapf Memorial Secondary School
Headmaster - Aggrey High School
Political Experience:
Deputy National Executive Officer - KANU
Founder member LDP - Rainbow
Hobbies:
Golf, Sports
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