I currently serve as Executive Director for Amnesty International Kenya. As Amnesty’s spokesperson and chief strategist in Kenya, I lead a team of committed investigative researchers and campaigners working to end human rights abuses and realize the rights and freedoms captured in the Constitution of Kenya.

Under my leadership, Team Amnesty Kenya has consistently publicly engaged human rights violations, quadrupled membership, expanded and diversified its funding base by 40 per cent, pioneered a community-based solidarity based organizing model and established a member driven national governance framework for Amnesty International in the last four years. In 2021, Amnesty Kenya was among the top ten most successful fundraising offices/sections in the Amnesty movement.

Irũngũ has worked with most of biggest NGO brands in the world including Actionaid, Oxfam, Care, GreenPeace, London School of Economics and WWF among others. He is also the founding Chairperson of the Kilimani  Foundation, a community foundation committed to creating livability and workability in the local community in which he lives. His public interest campaigns with others have received awards and citations from the African Union, New Partnership for Africa’s Development, Nation Media Group, New African, Architectural Association of Kenya and Sabre Africa Awards over the last decade.

Widely known as an inspirational speaker, change facilitator and skillful moderator, Irũngũ has published over 400 weekly newspaper Op Eds. He is an analyst of choice on Kenya for the national and international media. He is also the author of the recently published “Dialogue and Dissent: A Constitution in Search of a Country” available on Amazon. He is married and father to seven adult children. Irũngũ holds two degrees from the University of Dar es Salaam and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

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