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• Amb. Patrick Wamoto is a Special Advisor (Capacity Building and Skills Development), at the Ministry of Foreign & Diaspora Affairs. He has also been doubling up as Ag. Director-General, Foreign Service Academy of Kenya since April 2025. Between April 2019 and March 2025, he served as a Commissioner at the Public Service Commission of Kenya. He is a former senior public servant and diplomatic service professional with a strong insight into the dynamics and issues around Kenya’s foreign relations in particular, and the wider government in general. He has contributed immensely to shaping the role of Kenya’s Foreign Service and its purpose in delivering public service priorities for the ordinary citizen, the economic good of the country and the national interest. • Prior to joining the Public Service Commission, Amb. Wamoto was Kenya’s Ambassador to Thailand with multiple accreditations to Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. From 2013 to 2015 he served as Ambassador/High Commissioner of Kenya to South Africa with multiple accreditations to the Kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland. • He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1983 after graduating with an Upper 2nd Class (Honors) Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Nairobi. • He also holds a Post-Graduate Diploma (Distinction) in Diplomatic Studies from Oxford University, UK (1987) and a Post-Graduate Diploma (Distinction) in Multilateral Diplomacy from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland (1998). He has undertaken various training courses in Management at the Kenya School of Government in Nairobi as well as the German Centre for International Development in Berlin, Germany. Amb. Patrick Wamoto is also an Alumnus of the National Defense College, Kenya (2007). • He rose through the civil service ranks starting as an Assistant Secretary III in 1983 to the position of Ambassador in 2008 and Political and Diplomatic Secretary in April 2010. He served as Ag.Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs from October, 2010 to August, 2011. This afforded him a front seat policy making role on diplomatic initiatives relating to ‘operation linda inchi’, Kenya’s military operation in Southern Somalia. • He has also served in various capacities both at the Ministry Headquarters and overseas including as First Secretary at the Kenya High Commission in London (1989-1995), Deputy Head of Mission Kenya Embassy Vienna, Austria (2002-2005) and Deputy Head of Mission Kenya High Commission Abuja (2005-2007), and Director of Africa and AU Directorate at Ministry Headquarters (2008-2009). • He has represented Kenya at various International meetings and conferences including the UN General Assembly, the Commonwealth Senior Officials and Heads of Governments meetings, the IAEA and UNIDO General Conferences, CTBTO Prep-Com Meetings, the African Union Executive Council and Assembly of Heads of State Meetings and FOCAC Ministerial Meetings. • He was conferred with the award of The Order of the Burning Spear, 2nd Class (Elder of the Burning Spear – EBS) by the President of the Republic of Kenya in December, 2010 for his exemplary contribution to Kenya’s diplomacy.