Top Management
The KNBS Top Management
Director General
Dr. Macdonald George Obudho serves as the Director General of the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, where he has dedicated his career to promoting excellence in the development and production of high-quality official statistics in Kenya. With a wealth of experience in top management roles spanning over seventeen years, he has led various technical teams in conducting population and housing censuses, registration and profiling of farmers, and designing and executing numerous sample surveys.
Dr. Obudho is a respected authority in the field of statistics, playing a key role in the development and implementation of statistical methods and standards, statistics policies, laws, and production, as well as the dissemination and utilization of statistical data. His leadership as Director of Population and Social Statistics was instrumental in overseeing the successful execution of the first digital census during the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census.
In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of statistics and his innovative approach to data collection, he has been honored with two State Commendation Awards: Elder of the Order of the Burning Spear (EBS) in 2023 and Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear (MBS) in 2019. He is a registered member of the Kenya National Statistical Society. Macdonald holds a PhD degree in Applied Statistics, a Master of Science degree in Statistics, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, all from the esteemed Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.
He has a number of certificates under his name that arise from short courses, workshops and seminars attended both locally and internationally.
Dr. Obudho serves as a Board Director of Tourism Research Institute, Hazina SACCO, among other boards
Dr. Macdonald George Obudho EBS, MBS
Director General
Director, Statistical Coordination and Methods
Benjamin Avusevwa is the Director of Statistical Coordination and Methods.
He was appointed to this post in October 2020. Avusevwa joined the then Central Bureau Statistics 1995 as a Statistician and later joined the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) in 2009. Prior to this appointment, he was Head of External, Fiscal and Financial Statistics Division and Coordinator of National Strategy for the Development of Statistics.
His career is focused on strategic planning, production and management of official statistics. He has vast experience in the compilation and analysis of Macroeconomic Statistics with expertise in External Sector Statistics. He has also extensive experience of business survey methodology and contributed to the development of the UN International Merchandise Trade statistics: Concepts and definitions 2010.
In the past, he has represented the KNBS on several technical groups and committees. Internationally, he has worked closely with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the East African Community (EAC) on development and use of statistical frameworks and methodologies. He has complemented his KNBS experience with being a member of EAC High-level Task Force for the development of East African Monetary Union protocol, member of Kenya delegation in the negotiation of EAC Common Market protocol, and Kenya delegation team leader in the development of the bill for establishment of East African Statistics Bureau.
Avusevwa is a statistician by profession having obtained a Master of Science degree in Statistics from the University of Nairobi in 2005 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics and Computer Studies from Kenyatta University in 1994. He is also a holder of a certificate in computer network engineering from Okinawa International Centre under Japan International Cooperation in 2001. He has undertaken various courses related to production of statistics, strategic management, risk management and strategic leadership inside and outside Kenya over the years. He is an accredited statistician with Kenya National Statistics Society.
Benjamin Avusevwa
Director, Statistical Coordination and Methods
Director Population and Social Statistics
Mr Abdulkadir Amin Awes holds a Master of Arts degree in Economic Policy Management (EPM) from Makerere University of Kampala (MUK), Master of Science in Population Studies from University of Nairobi, Bachelor of Arts (Second Class Honors, Upper Division) from University of Nairobi and Diploma on Decentralized Planning for Rural Development from National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad (India). He has over 29 years’ experience in public service in the areas of Statistics, Economic planning, HIV/AIDs, monitoring and evaluation.
He joined Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (formerly Central Bureau of Statistics) as a Senior Manager in charge of social statistics. He has been involved in the production of various plans and statistical publications, which include, District Poverty Reduction Paper, District Development Plans, Annual Economic Survey reports, Annual Statistical Abstract reports and County Statistical Abstracts.
He has a vast experience in planning, designing, coordinating and providing technical expertise in various national surveys and population and housing censuses (1999, 2009 and 2019). He authored a number of survey and census reports.
Mr. Abdulkadir Amin Awes
Director Population and Social Statistics
Director, Macroeconomic Statistics
Mr Collins Omondi has a vast experience in Statistics, Economics and Data Management Skills drawn from over 19 years of work experience with the statistics Institution. He holds Master of Arts in Economics (University of Nairobi) and Bachelor of Science in Statistics (University of Nairobi). He has attended and participated in various Macroeconomics statistics related forums both locally and internationally.
He heads Macroeconomics statistics Directorate responsible for coordination, collection, analyses, generation and dissemination of macroeconomic statistics in the following main areas: National Accounts, External sector statistics, Monetary and Financial statistics, Public Finance, Tourism and migration, and Transport, Storage and Communications statistics.
Mr. Mathew Collins Omondi
Director, Macroeconomic Statistics
Director, Production Statistics
Mr. Robert Nderitu is a statistician by profession and holds a Master of Science Degree (Statistics) from Kenyatta University. He has more than twenty (20) years’ experience in the field of Statistics and through appropriate training and experience both locally and internationally, has been undertaking duties related to production and management of Statistics. This includes; preparing concept papers and proposals; providing economic planning, analytical, statistical, demographic and other related services; designing and maintaining business register and sampling frames; designing data collection instruments; designing surveys and censuses; collecting and analyzing statistics on various thematic areas; monitoring living conditions by collecting, compiling and disseminating data on Consumer Price Indices (CPI) as well as income and expenditure levels; and compiling other development Indexes including Human Development Indexes.
He is currently in-charge of Production Statistics Directorate whose mandate involves collection, analysis, generation and dissemination of statistics in the areas of Labour, Prices, Industrial, Agriculture and Livestock, Environment and Nutrition statistics. The National Information Platform for Food and Nutrition (NIPFN) Project which aims at promoting stakeholders dialogue and strengthen national capacity to manage and analyse existing information and data from all sectors that influence food security and nutrition to better inform decision making & improve nutrition and food security is also implemented from the directorate. He also coordinates the monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at KNBS.
He has represented the KNBS on several technical groups, committees and international conferences and in his line of duty, has worked closely with various international organization including the World Bank and the International Labour Organization. He has also offered technical support to several statistical offices including those of Malawi, Swaziland and Timor Leste.
Nderitu has undertaken various courses related to production of statistics, cooperate governance, strategic management, risk management and strategic leadership inside and outside Kenya over the years. He is a qualified quality management system internal auditor and heads a team of champions in implementing the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System in the Bureau. He is a member of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH). He is an accredited statistician with Kenya National Statistics Society and was honoured with a State Award; The Order of the Grand Warrior (OGW) of Kenya in 2019 as a result of his exemplary work in Statistics.
Mr. Robert King’ori Nderitu, OGW
Director, Production Statistics
The Board of Directors, Management and Staff of Kenya National Bureau of Statistics warmly welcome Dr. Jane Weru to the Bureau. Dr. Weru is the new Director Corporate Services having taken over from Madam Ann Mburu who exited the Bureau last year.
Dr. Weru brings 23 years of extensive management and technical experience in human resource management having served in diverse human resource leadership positions. Prior to joining KNBS, she served as a Senior Lecturer at the South Eastern Kenya University-School of Business and Economics and served in an acting capacity as the Director-Human Resource management in the same University; was a Deputy Director at the State Corporations Advisory Committee and Head of Human Resource Management at Technical University of Mombasa. She has wealth of experience on governance and management of state corporations having worked in the inspectorate of state corporations for thirteen (13) years.
Her notable achievements include development of Human Resource Policy Instruments for State Corporations such as the Institute of Human Resource Management (IHRM), Higher Education Loans Board (HELB), Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), National Social Security Fund (NSSF), Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA), Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), Commission for University Education (CUE), Kenya Marine and Fisheries Institute (KMFRI), Kenya Forest Service (KFS), Private Security Regulatory Authority(PSRA) and University of Nairobi(UoN) among others.
A Certified Human Resource Professional in Kenya, Dr. Jane Weru earned her Doctor of Philosophy-Human Resource Management from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. She also possesses a Masters of Science in Human Resource Management and is a Member of the Institute of Human Resource Management-Kenya (IHRM-K).