HON.  EUGENE LUDOVIC WAMALWA

Minister for Justice, National Cohesion & Constitutional Affairs

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PERSONAL DETAILS
•    Name            Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa
•    Date of birth         1st April 1969
•    Nationality         Kenyan
•    Marital status        married
•    Address         P.O. BOX 10539 – 00100, G.P.O., NAIROBI
•    Telephone         (254) 020 – 2221291/2242575 (O), 0722-981411(M)
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
•    Year:             1993 – 1994
•    Course done:     Diploma in law
•    Institution:     Kenya School of law
•    Qualification:     Diploma in law
•    Year:             1989 – 1992
•    Course done:     Bachelor of laws
•    Institution:     University of Nairobi
•    Qualification:     llb (hons) degree
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
•    Advocate of The High Court of Kenya
•    Commissioner for Oaths
•    Certified Public Secretary
MEMBERSHIP / ASSOCIATIONS
•    Member of Parliament for Saboti constituency
•    Member - Defense & Foreign Relations Committee of the 10th Parliament
•    Member – Administration of Justice & Legal Affairs Committee of the 10th Parliament
•    Member – Privilege & Humanities Committee of the 10th Parliament
•    Member - Multi-Sectoral Committee on the review of the Constitution of Kenya
•    Treasurer – World Parliamentary Scouts Association
•    Chairman – Kenya Parliamentary Scouting Association
•    Member of the Law Society of Kenya
•    Member of the East African Law Society
•    Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
•    Member of the Institute of Certified Public Secretaries
•    Secretary for Constitution & Legal Affairs – Ford Kenya
WORK EXPERIENCE
YEAR: 2012 – TO DATE
•    Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs
YEAR: 2008 - 2012
•    Member of Parliament – Saboti Constituency
YEAR: 2003 – 2007
•    Trustee - Local Authorities Pension Trust
•    Chairman – Task Force Reviewing Local Government Officers Act
•    Director – Kenya Seed Company Limited
•    Chairman – Board of Trustees – Kenya Seed Company Limited Staff Retirement Benefits Scheme.
YEAR:         1999 – TO DATE
Company:     Wamalwa & Co. Advocates
Position:     Senior Partner
YEAR: 1995 - 1999
Company:     Nancy Baraza & Co. Advocates
Position:     Associate / Advocate
YEAR:         1994 – 1995
Company:     J.A.B. Orengo & Co. Advocates
Position:     Advocate
DUTIES
•    Day to day management
•    Senior Litigation Counsel in charge of all Civil and Criminal litigation in the Surbordinate, High Court and Court of Appeal
•    In charge of Arbitration, Conveyancing and all Commercial Transactions
•    Drafting of various Legal documents
•    Advising of Clients on various legal matters
•    Senior legal consultant to various financial institutions, private companies and state corporations
CONSULTANCIES
•    Legal consultant and counsel to his Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, president of the republic of Uganda.
•    Legal advisor and counsel to his Excellency the late Michael Christopher Wamalwa Kijana, vice president of the republic of Kenya
•    Legal consultant and counsel to various universities and chancellors
•    Legal advisor to various local authorities
•    Legal consultant on commercial law matters and counsel to various banking and other financial institutions both local and international
•    Legal consultant and counsel to various state corporations
•    Legal consultant to Thuraya international (U.A.E.)
•    Legal consultant on labour laws and industrial disputes to several local as well as international companies & organizations
INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS
•    Engaged by Thuraya International co. Ltd in the United Arab Emirates as legal consultant in 2003.
•    Engaged in a legal suit in Victoria, Australia and in the high court of Kenya against the lonely planet publications PTY Ltd in 2002.
•    Counsel for the president of the republic of Uganda his Excellency, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, in the presidential election petition of 2001, together with Dr. John Khaminwa and a team of Ugandan lawyers.
•    Engaged as a researcher and assisting counsel in representing a Rwandese national before the united nations sponsored international criminal tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania in 2000.
•    Engaged in Jinja, Uganda as legal adviser for Sietco, a Chinese state corporation in a multi million dollar Owen falls dam project arbitration with the government of Uganda in 1999.
AREAS OF LEGAL EXPERTISE
•    Commercial Law and Business Administration
•    Constitutional Law
•    International Law With Bias to Maritime Law/Law of the Sea
•    Labour Law
•    Company Law
INTERESTS
•    Law
•    Politics & Community Development
•    Traveling
•    Reading