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Duncan Ndegwa was a Kenyan politician and the first African Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya. He was born in 1925 in Nyeri, Kenya. He attended the University of London and graduated with a degree in economics. Ndegwa was appointed Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya in 1966, becoming the first African to hold the position. He held the position until 1975. During his tenure, he was instrumental in the establishment of the East African Currency Board and the East African Development Bank. Ndegwa was also a member of the Legislative Council of Kenya from 1958 to 1963. He was a member of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) and served as the party's chairman from 1969 to 1975. Ndegwa was awarded the Order of the Grand Warrior of Kenya in 1975. He died in Nairobi in 2020 at the age of 95.

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Born 11 March 1925
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2006

Ndegwa released his memoirs Walking in Kenyatta Struggles: My Story in December 2006.

1972

In December 1972, Jeremy Morse who had been elected first chairman of the Committee of 20 charged with drafting the technical structure for the forthcoming IMF reforms, asked Ndegwa and three other international financial experts to serve as his deputies. Ndegwa however informed Morse by cable gram that he would not be able to serve.

1956

Ndegwa joined the public service in 1956 as an Economist/Statistician and was appointed Permanent Secretary, Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of the Public Service in 1963 where he served until he was appointed Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya in 1967. As the first head of the civil service, Ndegwa was at the heart of the Africanisation programme whose aim was to build an African capitalist class in industry and commerce. The two sectors had been dominated by Europeans and Asians before Kenya's independence. Ndegwa served as Governor of the Central Bank until 1982.

1925

Duncan Nderitu Ndegwa (born 11 March 1925) was the first post-independence Head of Civil Service and Secretary to the Cabinet in Kenya. He was also the first African and longest serving Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya.

Ndegwa was born on 11 March 1925 in Nyeri County. He attended Alliance High School in Kikuyu, Makerere University College in Uganda and University of St. Andrews, Scotland.