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Henry Mutwiri Riungu
Alternate Board Director, National Treasury and Economic Planning

Mr. Henry Mutwiri Riungu is the alternate Board Director for Principal Secretary, the National Treasury.

As a financial professional with over 26 years of experience, Mr. Mutwiri has served  in senior positions at the National Treasury, including as a Senior Finance Officer, Deputy Head of the World Bank Division in Resource Mobilization Department, Chief Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations Officer and Chief Investment Officer. He is currently the Assistant Director for Investment in the National Treasury under the Department of Government Investment in Public Enterprises (GIPE) in the Directorate of Public Investment & Portfolio Management (PIPM).

For over a decade, he was instrumental in reviewing financing and credit agreements for mobilization grants and donations, facilitating and monitoring the implementation of donor-funded projects and undertaking policy analysis on external resources mobilization to inform policy development. He also served as a member of Kenya Negotiating Delegation for external resources with development partners specifically the World Bank.

In his current position as the Assistant Director for Investment in the National Treasury, he is responsible for coordinating the review of state corporations’ annual budgets, corporate plans and other strategic undertaking for approval by the National Treasury. He also assists in the evaluation of government investments in public enterprises, managing National Government On-lent and guaranteed loans to state corporations and other entities, including how to manage contingent liabilities and other fiscal risks relating to state corporations and government investments.

He has served as an alternate Board Member in various State Corporations cutting across various sectors namely banking, water, social services, leather processing and regulatory agencies.

Mr. Mutwiri holds an MBA in Finance from Maseno University, a Post Graduate Diploma in Finance from KCA University and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Nairobi. He has attended various short-term external trainings on public financial management conducted in Tanzania, Malawi, South Africa, Britain, Denmark and United States of America.