Alternate Director to the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury & Economic Planning
Mr. Duncan Ndegwa Gathege is an economist with over 17 years of work experience in diverse fields and currently works at the National Treasury. He previously served as the Personal Assistant to the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury and Economic Planning. Additionally, he worked at Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) as a Senior Statistical Analyst from 2016 to 2023. During his time at KRA, he gained invaluable knowledge in Taxation, Data Mining and Advanced Data Analytics to simplify and quicken business decisions.
Over and above that, Mr. Gathege played a significant role in the entrenchment of the devolution process in Kenya where he worked as a Programme Officer in charge of Capacity Building at Transition Authority (TA) from 2013-2016. Transition Authority facilitated and coordinated the transition to devolved system of government as provided under section 15 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution.
He holds a Master of Business Administration degree specializing in Strategic Management from the University of Nairobi, School of Business and a Bachelor degree in Arts and Social Sciences (Economics & Sociology) from Egerton University. He is a member of Economists Society of Kenya (ESK). Additionally, he has been trained locally and internationally in the fields of project management and monitoring as well as advanced data analytics. He has passion in application of analytics for predictive modelling and analyzing complex market dynamics to help organizations make strategic decisions.