Purity Ngina

Purity Ngina is a Kenyan academician and the CEO of the National Gender and Equality Commission. She previously worked at Zizi Afrique Foundation and was a lecturer at Strathmore University in Nairobi from 2016 to 2020. At age 28, she became Kenya's youngest PhD graduate in biomathematics.^[1][2]

Purity Ngina was born in Nyeri County, a rural area of Kenya, in 1990.^[3] She and her older brother were raised by a single mother.^[4] Ngina sat for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education twice in 2002 and 2003 before proceeding to secondary school and graduating in 2007.^[5][6]

In 2009, she was admitted to Egerton University, where she graduated with first class honors in 2013 with undergraduate degrees in education science and mathematics. In 2015 she graduated with a master's degree in applied mathematics from the same university.^[7][8]

Ngina joined Strathmore University as an assistant lecturer in 2016 teaching finance, economics, and actuarial science students.^[9] She received funding for a PhD from The German Academic Exchange Service.^[10][11] In 2018, age 28, she became Kenya's youngest PhD holder in biomathematics. Her thesis focused on the mathematics of HIV.^[12][13]

She is married to Germano Mugambi, a university lecturer at Egerton University.^[14]