Joseph Odero-Jowi

Joseph Odero-Jowi (August 15, 1936 – October 17, 2015) was a Kenyan politician and diplomat. He represented Kenya in the United Nations for several years, working to bring the United Nations Environment Programme's headquarters to Nairobi.

Biography Jowi was born on August 15, 1936, in Sori, Kenya, and attended the village's primary school, the Kisii School and the Kagumo Teachers College. He also spent several years in India at the universities of Calcutta and New Delhi, studying economics.

He was principal of the African Labour College in Kampala, Uganda, from 1961 to 1963. In 1963 he married Salome and returned to Kenya. In 1966, Jowi was elected to represent the Ndhiwa Constituency in the Kenyan National Assembly. He worked in the Ministry of Labour, then the Ministry of Finance. He lost reelection later that year,

In 2007 Jowi was awarded named an Elder of the Order of the Burning Spear. In 2014 he was described as living in a housing development in Langata, Kenya, with his wife. He died on October 17, 2015.