Susan Mboya

Susan Mboya is a corporate executive, entrepreneur and philanthropist who is the Principal and International Advisor for Navigators Global, a Washington DC–based consulting firm.

Tom Mboya was a well-known trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author, and a Cabinet Minister in Kenyas first post-independence Government.

Mboya holds a number of board positions including the Chair of Liberty Group, a publicly traded company in the nairobi stock exchange.

The Zawadi Africa program is based on the Africa Student Airlifts program launched by her father and President John F. Kennedy in 1959 that enabled several participants including Barack Obama Sr, father of President Barack Obama, and Professor Wangari Mathaai to study in the U.S.[2][3] Mboya has been a senior executive on the global stage for over 25 years, holding a series of positions in General Management.

Mboya moved to the Coca-Cola Company as the General Manager for the Southern Africa region in 2008 and then became the President of the Coca-Cola Africa Foundation, where she successfully forged public-private partnerships to help resource, fund and provide technical expertise for the foundations initiatives, raising over $120 million in funding towards the 5by20 initiative and working with international partners including USAID, "GETF", DFID, TechnoServe, MercyCorps and the International Finance Corporation and empowering over 700,000 women.