Monica Juma is dead or still Alive? Did What happen to the Kenyan diplomat? The Cabinet Secretary of Defense job was replaced with Energy and Petroleum by Kenyan politician Dr. Monica Juma. Her birth year is 1963. Follow For More Updates: Newsy orbits on the official website or google news
Juma held the position of Principal Secretary for the MFA from January 2016 to February 2018 before being chosen for his current job that month. Prior to joining the Ministry of Interior, Juma worked as the Principal Secretary for the Ministry of Defense.
Juma obtained her BA, MA, and Ph.D. at Oxford University. She additionally completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Nairobi.
Juma has significant experience in international relations; she concurrently represented Kenya as ambassador to Ethiopia, Djibouti, the African Union, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. She served as an ambassador for each of these groups out of Addis Abeba.

From June 27, 2013, until her transfer to the Kenya Ministry of the Interior, she was the Principal Secretary of the Kenya Ministry of Defense.
Juma is a senior research fellow at the University of Pretoria in South Africa’s department of political science. She also serves as an adjunct professor at the National Defense University’s African Center for Strategic Studies in Washington, DC. Juma has authored and published a large number of works in her area of expertise.