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Strathmore University Business School congratulates Karen Basiye on her recent appointment as the Head of Department, Sustainable Business and Social Impact at Safaricom PLC.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Karen is a keen sustainable business leader bringing to the table more than 15 years of experience. She has previously held other positions at Safaricom and the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) where she developed competencies in leadership, governance, strategic thinking, sustainability reporting, corporate environmental management, and environmental management systems among others.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

She holds a Joint\u00a0Master of Environmental Science, Policy and Management degree from Lund University (Sweden), University of Manchester (UK), Central European University (Hungary), and University of the Aegean (Greece), and a Bachelor of Environment Science degree from Kenyatta University. She is also an alumna of the SBS\u00a0Senior Management Leadership Programme<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Congratulations Karen!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSBS Alumna Appointed Head of Department, Sustainable Business and Social Impact at Safaricom PLC - Strathmore University Business School<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/en_gb\/sbs-alumna-appointed-head-of-department-sustainable-business-and-social-impact-at-safaricom-plc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SBS Alumna Appointed Head of Department, Sustainable Business and Social Impact at Safaricom PLC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/en_gb\/sbs-alumna-appointed-head-of-department-sustainable-business-and-social-impact-at-safaricom-plc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Strathmore University Business School\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-10T10:25:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Karen-Basiye-2-920x460-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"460\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"sbs\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sbs\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sbs.strathmore.edu\\\/sbs-alumna-appointed-head-of-department-sustainable-business-and-social-impact-at-safaricom-plc\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sbs.strathmore.edu\\\/sbs-alumna-appointed-head-of-department-sustainable-business-and-social-impact-at-safaricom-plc\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"sbs\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sbs.strathmore.edu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d3fa78c302c9226e141112880076ec94\"},\"headline\":\"SBS Alumna Appointed Head of Department, Sustainable Business and Social Impact at Safaricom PLC\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-10T10:25:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sbs.strathmore.edu\\\/sbs-alumna-appointed-head-of-department-sustainable-business-and-social-impact-at-safaricom-plc\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":858,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sbs.strathmore.edu\\\/sbs-alumna-appointed-head-of-department-sustainable-business-and-social-impact-at-safaricom-plc\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sbs.strathmore.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/05\\\/Karen-Basiye-2-920x460-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/sbs.strathmore.edu\\\/sbs-alumna-appointed-head-of-department-sustainable-business-and-social-impact-at-safaricom-plc\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sbs.strathmore.edu\\\/sbs-alumna-appointed-head-of-department-sustainable-business-and-social-impact-at-safaricom-plc\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sbs.strathmore.edu\\\/sbs-alumna-appointed-head-of-department-sustainable-business-and-social-impact-at-safaricom-plc\\\/\",\"name\":\"SBS Alumna Appointed Head of Department, Sustainable Business and Social Impact at Safaricom PLC - 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