George Saitoti

George Musengi Saitoti, E.G.H. was a Kenyan politician, businessman and American and Britishtrained economist, mathematician and development policy thinker.

George Saitoti was born onAugust 1945 and brought up in Maasailand, where he spent his childhood herding cattle in line with the Masai culture, and attending school. He attended Ololua Primary School, Kajiado where he acquired his basic education in the 1950s. Between 1960 and 1963, he secured a place at Mangu High School in Thika where he attained his high school education. He joined the ranks of Mangu High Schools highly decorated alumni including Kenyas third President, Mwai Kibaki, former VicePresident Moody Awori, Catholic Archbishop Ndingi MwanaaNzeki, the late Environment Minister John Michuki, the late Trade Unionist and former Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Tom Mboya, and late Cardinal Maurice Michael Otunga. Saitoti spent a brief while in the United States of America, where he received his undergraduate education at Brandeis University between 1963 and 1967. During his time there, he was on the prestigious Wien Scholarship, specialising in Mathematics and

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