Yvonne Khamati

Yvonne Khamati (born c. 1982), is a Kenyan politician who was nominated to the East African Legislative Assembly as Member of Parliament by Ford Kenya Party (and the Kenya National Assembly) aged 21 and a diplomat who was appointed by President Mwai Kibaki to serve as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to Ethiopia and African Union at 24. She has worked in various missions. As of November 2018, Khamati served as the deputy ambassador at the Kenyan embassy in Mogadishu, capital city of Somalia. After attending elementary school in Kenya, she joined Stretford Grammar School, in Manchester, United Kingdom, where she completed her O-Level studies in 1998. In 1999, she returned to Kenya and joined Peponi High School, where she completed her A-Level schooling in 2001.

Between 2001 and 2009, she studied at various institutions of higher education including the University of Nairobi, the United States International University Africa and the online American World University. She earned a Diploma in Sociology & Criminology, a Diploma in Political Science & International Relations, A Bachelor of Business Administration degree from San Juan de La Cruz University (Universidad San Juan de la Cruz) and a Master of Arts (MA) degree in Counselling Psychology. In 2012, she earned a Professional Graduate Diploma in Management from Cambridge Association of Manager's.

Other considerations In 2002, she was appointed to represent Kenya at the East African Legislative Assembly, in Arusha, Tanzania. At age 22 years, she was the youngest person to have been appointed to the East African Parliament.

In 2017, she was named as top 100 top Africans under 40 by MIPAD (Most Influential people of African Descent). She also runs the YK Foundation, which works on empowering women and the girl child in rural areas providing scholarships, sanitary towels, jigger treatment and feeding programs.