Phillip Ndegwa was a Kenyan economist, entrepreneur, former Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya,[1] and patriarch of one of the country's wealthiest families.
In the same year, the United Nations Secretary General appointed him to a panel of international economic experts charged with examining Africa's debt crisis and recommending policies to address it.
He wrote several books, the last of which was Africa to 2000: Imperative Political and Economic Agenda, published in 1994 and coauthored with Mr. Reginald Herbold Green.
It also had interests in catering firm Nairobi Airport Services (NAS), in which a French multinational, Servair, acquired a 59% stake in December 2012, estimated at more than KSh.
[15] As a tribute, the United Nations released the multi-author research volume Renewing Social and Economic Progress in Africa: Essays in Memory of Philip Ndegwa[16] in the year 2000.