Martin Kimani

Kimani delivered a speech to the UN Security Council on 22 February 2022, in which he criticised Russia's recognition of separatist-held areas of Ukraine, and drew comparisons between the borders of Europe and those of Africa, saying:

Kimani is Kenya's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and has been in that post since December 2020. He was president of the United Nations Security Council for October 2021.

He became the secretary for the Building Bridges Initiative in December 2018.

Kimani was awarded the honour of Elder of the Order of the Burning Spear by the President of Kenya in 2016.

Kimani is the Kenyan Presidential Special Envoy for Countering Violent Extremism, and was appointed as the Director of Kenya's National Counter Terrorism Centre in 2015.

In 2013, Kimani was a Distinguished African Visiting Fellow at the South African Institute of International Affairs.

From April 2011 to December 2012, Kimani was the Director of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanism in Ethiopia.

Kimani has a bachelor's degree from the University of New Hampshire (1996). He has a master's degree (2003) and a PhD (2013) in War Studies from King's College London, University of London.

He wrote his master's thesis on oil marketing in Kenya. His PhD thesis was about the role of Christian symbolism, the Catholic Church, and racialism in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Mbugua Martin Kimani (born 1971) is a Kenyan government official and diplomat. He has served as Kenya's Permanent Representative to the United Nations since December 2020. He previously served as the Director of the National Counter Terrorism Centre and as a Special Envoy for Countering Violent Extremism in Kenya.