Director, Policy, Research & Quality Assurance
Dr. Roba serves as the Authority’s Director, Policy, Research, and Quality Assurance. In this position, which he held since July 2018, Dr. Roba is responsible for, among others, developing effective strategies for economic analysis and policy to inform the Authority’s mandate execution. Between January 2023 and September 2024, Dr. Roba served as the Authority’s Acting Director-General.
Dr. Roba has over fifteen (15) years’ experience in applied research, policy making and development of legislative frameworks. At the Authority, he has spearheaded various research initiatives projects such as inquiries and market studies into sectors such as fertilizer, digital credit, shipping, leasing, and banking, among others.
Prior to joining the Authority, Dr. Roba was a Senior Policy Analyst at the National Treasury & Planning’s Fiscal & Economic Affairs Department. He was responsible for formulation of mineral resource revenue use policy and fiscal rules, and development of legislative framework for management of mineral resource revenues.
At the National Treasury, he was actively involved in several taskforces that developed legislation on climate change, petroleum, minerals, energy and related policies and regulations. Between 2017 and 2018, he served as Chairperson to the Steering Committee of the Strathmore University’s Extractives Baraza, formerly the Information Centre for Extractives Sector.
Dr. Roba has also served as a Senior Lecturer in environmental economics at University of Eldoret and Moi University. He earned his PhD from the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and an MSc from the University of York (UK).