Joseph Wakaba Mucheru EGH was the former Kenyan Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communications.

[8] He was awarded the Moran of the order of the burning spear in December 2010 by the President of the Republic of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki.

He is a member of the Africa Leadership Network, The National Prayer Breakfast, and the East African Business Summit.

[9] Joseph Mucheru has been on the boards of many companies and businesses, including the M-Pesa Foundation Academy[12] advisory board, the payments platform BitPesa (now AZA Finance),[13] and GiveDirectly,[14] which aims to cut out the intermediary and ensure that donations go straight to the intended recipients.

Mucheru married Aida Wambui in 2005 under Kikuyu traditional laws.