Phyllis Wanjiku Kibui
Audit/Risk Oversight Committee Chair
Ms. Phyllis Wanjiku Kibui (Kenya/USA) is currently working for Cities Alliance, a multi-donor coalition of cities and their development partners with a mandate for making unprecedented improvements in the living conditions of the urban poor.
Before joining Cities Alliance, she worked for the World Bank’s Internal Audit Department, carrying out audits of community-driven development projects financed by the Bank. Ms. Kibui was the Director of Relationship Management for Women’s World Banking (WWB) for seven years. She served as WWB’s Africa Regional Manager from 1993 to 2002, where she provided technical support and coordinated delivery of WWB products and services to affiliates in the region. She worked as Group Chief Accountant of the Serena Group of Hotels in East Africa. For over two years, Ms. Kibui was Finance and Administration Manager of the Kenya Rural Enterprise Program (K-REP), a leading microfinance institution in Kenya, and she served as head of the Finance Committee at Kenya Women Finance Trust, a WWB affiliate. From 2001 to 2006, Ms. Kibui served on the Board of Oikocredit, a leading development institution in the Netherlands, and Board President for the last three years.
Ms. Kibui has a Bachelor of Commerce degree and is a chartered accountant in the UK.
