Susan Mboya

Susan Mboya is a corporate executive and philanthropist who is the President of the Coca-Cola Africa Foundation and the Group Director of the Eurasia Africa Group (EAG) for women’s economic empowerment at Coca-Cola. Susan is also the former First Lady of Nairobi County , Kenyas largest county and the capital city and economic centre of Kenya. Susan is married to the first Governor of Nairobi, Dr. Evans Kidero. and is the daughter of the late Tom Mboya, a Kenyan nationalist leader, and one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Kenya. Tom Mboya was a well-known trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author, and a Cabinet Minister in Kenyas first post-independence Government. Dr. Susan Mboya is also the Founder of the Zawadi Africa Educational Fund, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that provides scholarships and leadership development training to academically gifted, marginalized African girls to enable them to attend top colleges and universities around the world with the objective of creating a pipeline of African female leaders. The Zawadi Africa program is based on the Africa Student Airlifts program launched by her father and President John F. Kennedy in 1959 that enabled luminaries including Barack Obama Sr, father of President Barack Obama, and Professor Wangari Mathaai to study in the U.S.

Susan Mboya obtained a B.Sc. in Pharmacy from the University of Connecticut in 1988. She then went on to obtain a Master of Science (MSc, 1991) and a Doctorate (PhD, 1995) in Industrial Pharmacy both at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy

Mboya is married to Governor Evans Kidero , Governor of Nairobi County , Kenya. She is the third born child of Tom and Pamela Mboya. Her father, Tom Mboya , a Kenyan nationalist leader, was a well-known Kenyan trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author, independence activist, Cabinet Minister and one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Kenya. Tom Mboya who negotiated with the British to help secure Kenyas independence in 1963, served as Justice Minister in Kenya post independence. He was assassinated in 1969 when Susan was still an infant. Her mother, Pamela Mboya, was one of Kenya's top diplomats serving as Kenyans Permanent representative to UN Habitat for over 20 years.

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