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Nuru Mugambi
Nuru Mugambi (born 1978) is a Kenyan banker and the Kenya Bankers' Association Director of Communications and Public Affairs She is also the youngest woman to have earned the Fellow of the Kenya Institute of Bankers, an award for her contributions in the Kenyan banking industry

Education and Career
Nuru left for the US at the age of 18 for her undergraduate studies. She joined Kennesaw State University in Georgia US where she studied Marketing and PR Communications and graduated with honours. She also has a Masters from Georgia State University in Strategy. After working in several top firms and companies in the US, she came back to Kenya in 2009 as Head of corporate Affairs for Barclays bank after working with the organisation both in London and Dubai before joining the Kenya Bankers Association in 2012.

While at KBA, Nuru is credited with initiating financial policies that turned around the industry. She initiated the Kenya Green Bond programme, a first for Kenya and the first green bond in East and Central Africa. Other areas of influence include sustainable finance, consumer protection.

Awards and Achievements
Nuru was the Winner of the Africa Sustainability Leadership . The Award that recognises leaders and future leaders and CEO Magazine's Most Influential Woman in Africa – Finalist in 2013.

She is also a Fellow of the Kenya Institute of Bankers (FKIB). In 2016, she became the Eisenhower Fellowship Kenya Chapter Chairman.

She is also the founding member of the Kenya Chapter of Graca Machel's New Faces/New Voices Pan African network.

Nuru has also served on the statutory Judiciary Mediation Accreditation Committee and is currently a member of the National Treasury Taskforce on the SME Credit Guarantee Scheme.

Life
Nuru is a single mother to a daughter. She gave birth just when she was about to finish her Masters programme at Georgia State University. While she admits she had a strong support system, she found it hard to raise her daughter there and moved back to Kenya where she has been living until now.