Emily Waita Macharia

Emily Waita Macharia (née Emily Waita) is a Kenyan government affairs and sustainability officer who serves as the Senior Director of Public Affairs at The Coca-Cola Company, for Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya's capital city. In that capacity, she overseas public affairs matters for her employer, across 54 countries African countries.

Background and education She was born in Kenya, circa 1979.

She has also undergone training in an Executive Management Program at Strathmore University, in Nairobi, Kenya. Later she undertook training in an Advanced Management Program at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, the business school of the University of Pretoria.

Immediately prior to her current assignment at Coca-Cola, in August 2015, Ms Macharia served as the Regulatory Affairs Manager at British American Tobacco's Eastern Africa Markets, spanning the countries of the East African Community, the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands, serving in that capacity, from 2012 until 2015.