Patricia Kameri-Mbote

Patricia Kameri-Mbote (born 19 March 1964) is a Kenyan lawyer, academic, and international environmental law scholar. She is currently the Director of the Law Division of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) United Nations Environment Programme. She is the first female professor of law in Kenya and the first woman to serve as Dean of the School of Law at the University of Nairobi. Kameri-Mbote has made significant contributions to environmental law, gender, and constitutional development in Kenya and internationally. Quotes I would be open to negotiating that can we have something in the Judicary Fund so that the Judiciary is able to execute its function. I think leadership is not gendered but I also think men and women bring different values to leadership. "Search for Chief Justice: Prof. Patricia Mbote put on the spot over her integrity", Citizen digital (April 14, 2021) I realized that the law I had learnt was sanitized, blind and abstracted from my lived realities. Nothing I was taught related to my multiple identities as a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister.” "Patricia Kameri-Mbote: Trailblazing Lawyer Guns for CJ Post", The Elephant (April 16, 2021) External Link Category:1964 births Category:Living people Category:Academics from Kenya Category:University of Nairobi alumni Category:Lawyers from Kenya Category:Women from Kenya