Prof. Michael Bowen was appointed to the Board of the Capital Markets Authority as an independent member for a period of three years, with effect from 24 February 2023.

Prof. Bowen is an Associate Professor of Environmental Economics and is currently the Principal of the Nairobi Campus of Daystar University. Before this, he was the Director of Research at Daystar University between 2015 to 2019 and Deputy Director, Quality Assurance between 2013 to 2015 in the same institution. In the period between 2005 and 2012, he was a senior researcher within the same university. Earlier in his academic career he taught at Kenya Methodist University where he rose to head the Department of Business Administration. Between 2012 and 2014 he was a council member at Daystar University representing the staff. He previously chaired the Board of IDB Capital, a parastatal under the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Prof. Bowen has supervised more than 100 Masters and PhD students to completion. He has been involved in several funded research and his publications are listed on Google Scholar and Research Gate with 740 citations on former, with the leading paper cited 653 times.

Prof. Bowen has presented papers in international conferences in the USA, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Japan, Dubai, South Africa, UAE, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda. He has been an external examiner for National University of Science and Technology (Zimbabwe), Jomo Kenyatta University, Kenya Methodist University, Moi University, Africa Nazarene University, Management University of Africa, University of Eldoret. He has also been an editor and reviewer of several journals. In addition, he has been part of teams in writing several academic programs from Undergraduate to PhD.

He holds a PhD in Environmental Economics from Moi University.