Mr. Musa Kathanje (OGW) serves on the Board of Capital Markets Authority Board as the Alternate to the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury and Economic Planning since 17th July 2020. He is the Director of Macro and Fiscal Affairs Department at the National Treasury a post he has held since November 2016. He joined the National Treasury in June 2013 on secondment from the Central Bank of Kenya where he had grown through the ranks for over 17 years.

Mr. Kathanje oversees the formulation and analysis of macroeconomic and fiscal policies to support the national budget process at the National Treasury. He has over 28 years of experience in macroeconomic and fiscal policy formulation as well as regional economic integration gained. He has extensive professional training from among others, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa (MEFMI) and the IMF East Afritac. Key areas of training include, macroeconomic policy and forecasting, monetary policy management, fiscal policy formulation and econometrics. Mr. Kathanje serves as Kenya’s Focal Point for the Human Capital Project of the World Bank.

He holds among others, a two-year certificate in macroeconomic modeling under the United Nations/African Research Network for Development Policy Analysis from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Mr. Kathanje holds Masters and Bachelor degrees (first class honours in Economics) from the University of Nairobi and is currently finalising a Phd programme in Business Administration (Finance) from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. Additionally, he has a CPA Part I certificate.

Mr. Kathanje represents the Principal Secretary, National Treasury in the Monetary Policy Committee of the CBK and has previously served as an Alternate to the Principal Secretary, National Treasury in the following Boards: Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat; Kenya Revenue Authority; Konza Technopolis and the Kenya Institute of Public Policy Research and Analysis.