Keriako Tobiko is the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Environment and Forestry having been appointed by H.E President Uhuru Kenyatta in January 2018.
Before his appointment, Mr. Tobiko was the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) having been first appointed in 2005. He was re-designated as the Chief Public Prosecutor in August 2010 under the new Kenya Constitution and appointed to head the independent constitutional office in June 2011.
He is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya and formerly a lecturer at the University of Nairobi. Mr. Tobiko is an alumnus of the University of Nairobi and a winner of several prestigious study scholarships in Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society (FCCS).
Nationally, he has served The Commission of Inquiry into the Land Law Systems in Kenya (1999 – 2002) and The Constitution of Kenya Review Commission (2000-2005) where he was a member Commissioner respectively.
Mr. Tobiko is currently a Member of the Commonwealth Group of contact persons on International Cooperation in criminal matters and a member of the Governing Council of the National Crime Research Centre (NCRC) since 2007. At the same time, he is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Witness Protection Agency (WPA) since 2008.
In 2011, he teamed up with other with other senior government to represent the Government of Kenya (GOK) in the proceedings before the ICC in relation to the 2007/08 Post Election Violence in Kenya.
Mr. Tobiko is a passionate lover of nature and the environment and believes in its sustainable conservation. He was instrumental in reclamation and restoration of the Mau Forest one of Kenya’s major water towers and the rehabilitation and restoration of Michuki Memorial Park the newest green space in Nairobi City.