President William Ruto greets residents after commissioning the Sh1.47 billion Mwala Cluster Water Supply Project in Machakos County to address decades of water
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William Ruto is Kenya's fifth President, a chicken-seller-turned-plant-ecologist who rode a hustler movement from the Kamagut roadside to State House in one of Africa's great political climbs. Elected Eldoret North MP in 1997, he mastered the inside game under Moi, ran the agriculture and higher education dockets in the grand coalition, then became the 2010 Constitution's first Deputy President on a joint ticket with Uhuru Kenyatta. When the handshake left him isolated, he recast himself as the outsider of bottom-up economics and won the 2022 election against the establishment that made him. In office he has pushed the housing levy, a universal health rollout and aggressive tax reform, drawing credit for boldness and street protests over the cost of living in equal measure. A University of Nairobi PhD in plant ecology, he remains the most relentless campaigner of his generation.
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- President, Kenya
United Democratic Alliance 2022, present
current Deputy President of Kenya
Government of Kenya 2012-2021
Kenya's first Deputy President under the 2010 Constitution, elected on a joint ticket with Uhuru Kenyatta in 2013 and re-elected in 2017. The pair's later falling-out set up the underdog campaign that won him the presidency in 2022.
Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology
Government of Kenya 2009-2011
Held the higher education, science and technology portfolio during the coalition government's final stretch, supervising university expansion before leaving to build the United Republican Party for the 2013 race.
Minister for Agriculture
Government of Kenya 2007-2009
Ran the agriculture docket in the grand-coalition cabinet formed after the 2007 election crisis, overseeing fertilizer subsidy programmes and the maize sector during a severe food-price squeeze before a 2010 reshuffle.
Assistant Minister for Home Affairs
Government of Kenya 1997-2001
First executive post after capturing the Eldoret North seat in 1997. Under President Moi he handled internal administration and security matters, learning government from the inside while still in his early thirties.
- MP, Soy
1996-2012
Former Eldoret North
former
Education
Master of Science in Plant Ecology
University of Nairobi
Returned to the University of Nairobi mid-career for graduate research in plant ecology, completing the degree in 2011 while a senior national politician and reviving the scientific track he had set aside for two decades.
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Plant Ecology
University of Nairobi
Doctoral research on how human activity shapes plant diversity in the Saiwa swamp ecosystem of western Kenya, completed in 2018, making him the first sitting Deputy President to earn a PhD from a Kenyan public university.
Bachelor of Science in Botany and Zoology
University of Nairobi
Undergraduate science degree in botany and zoology, completed in 1990. He worked his way through university from a modest Kamagut upbringing and was a leader in Christian student groups, where his organizing talent first surfaced before politics.
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22 Oct 2026Africa must take greater responsibility for financing its development by strengthening its own financial institutions, President William Ruto has said. The Pres
Mishaal Shaileshkumar Sheth among 264 heroes awarded honours during Mashujaa Day celebrations ↗
22 Oct 2026NAKURU, Kenya, Oct 22 – Nakuru’s Mishaal Shaileshkumar Sheth was among the 264 national heroes recognised and awarded honours by President William Ruto during t
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