Gladwell Wathoni Otieno is the founder and Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Open Governance (AfriCOG), a governance and anti-corruption civil society organisation based in Kenya. AfriCOG also convenes the influential network, Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice that advocates for and monitors progress on constitutional implementation, electoral reform and accountability in Kenya.
At present, the University of Massachusetts, Boston and Free University of Berlin Germany Political Science and French graduate, is also the Vice Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the African Leadership Centre of King’s College London and the University of Nairobi and outgoing Vice Chairperson of the United Nations Convention against Corruption Coalition Coordination (UNCAC) Committee, working for the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption. She is also a member of the Board of the Partnership for Transparency Fund.
Previously, she has served as the Executive Director of Transparency International –Kenya, and has also worked for Transparency International in Berlin, Germany and the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria. She is also a founder member of the international steering committee of the Open Government Partnership (OGP).
Ms. Otieno has provided expert advice on governance and anti-corruption to several local and international institutions among them the World Bank and DFID, anti-corruption commissions and governments in various African countries.