Mr. Musa Kathanje was appointed to the Capital Markets Authority Board as the Alternate to the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury and Planning (13th August 2018, and 17th July 2020 to date). He is currently the Director of Macro and Fiscal Affairs Department at the National Treasury. He joined the National Treasury in June 2013 as the Head of Macro Division in the Economic Affairs Department, on secondment from the Central Bank of Kenya where he was the Head of Monetary Policy Analysis Division. Mr. Kathanje served at the Central Bank of Kenya from June 1996 to June 2013 before he was seconded to the National Treasury. He has over 25 years of experience in macroeconomic policy formulation and analysis, fiscal policy, monetary policy formulation as well as regional economic integration policy gained from both the Central Bank of Kenya (June 1996 to June 2013) and at the National Treasury (June 2013 to date). He was appointed the Director of Macro and Fiscal Affairs Department in November 2016 by the Public Service Commission of Kenya.
Mr. Kathanje has attended various trainings by among others, the International Monetary Fund and its various regional training Centers; the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the United States Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa (MEFMI) and the IMF East Afritac. He holds among others, a two-year certificate in macroeconomic modeling under the United Nations/African Research Network for Development Policy Analysis from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He holds both Masters and Bachelor degrees (first class honours in Economics) from the University of Nairobi and is currently finalizing a PhD in Business Administration - Finance from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya. He holds a CPA Part I certificate.
Mr. Kathanje also currently represents the Principal Secretary, National Treasury at the Central Bank of Kenya, Monetary Policy Committee meetings (May 2017 to date) and is an Alternate to the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury and Planning at the Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat Board (4th September 2019 to date). He also represents the Principal Secretary at the National Development Implementation Technical Committee (NDITC) Programmes and Policies Sub-Committee (July 17th, 2019 to date). He has previously served as the Alternate to the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury and Planning at the Konza Technopolis Board (14th October 2015 to September 30, 2019) and at the Kenya Institute of Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) (14th October 2015 to August 19, 2019).
