Anthony Mugo is a strategic communications specialist with 30 years of extensive experience in overseeing communication assignments for public, private and non-profit entities.
Educated in Kenya and the United States, Anthony has scholarly and professional interest in the role of communication in development.
He has worked as a journalist, a public relations practitioner, and a programme manager for several non-profit organisations in the East and Southern Africa region. He has consulted for non-profit, corporate, and public-sector clients mainly in formulation of communication strategies, non-profit strategies, and training. He is globally exposed, having been to 22 countries on four continents.
Mr. Mugo was the team leader in the communication campaign for the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics during the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census. The campaign won the prize for the best public sector campaign for 2019 administered by the Public Relations Society of Kenya.
He has led teams in the design of communication strategies for clients that include Kenya’s Ministry of Health, through the World Bank-funded behaviour change campaign known as Covid-19 Health Emergency Response Project; Kenya Bureau of Standards and Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA). In addition, he has been responsible for overseeing the development of communication strategies for the Kenya National Library Service, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and the Energy and the Privatisation Commission and the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC).
In 2023, Mr Mugo oversaw the development of communication strategies for the Africa Church Health Associations Platform (ACHAP) which has programmes in 32 sub-Saharan African countries and Kilimo Trust, a not-for-profit organization working on agriculture for development across the East Africa community – in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
Anthony previously worked with the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) as the Communication and Policy Engagement Manager, Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN) as the Deputy Director, Kenya Community Development Foundation as the Communication and Asset Development Manager and FIDA Kenya as the Programme Officer, Public Relations and Fundraising.
He is a Hubert Humphrey Fellow (a competitive Fulbright fellowship program of the Government of the United States of America). He holds a Master of Arts degree in Communication Studies from the same University and has a bachelor’s degree in education (Science – Botany and Zoology) from Kenyatta University. He has undergone numerous courses and facilitated high-level workshops that have made him a much sought-after strategic communication expert.