Vincent K. Kimosop currently serves as the Lead Consultant (Policy & Governance Expert) at SOVEREIGN INSIGHT. He is the immediate Chief Executive Officer of the International Institute for Legislative Affairs. He joined the organization in January 2009 as the Programme Coordinator, where he was responsible for providing overall leadership in the delivery of institute’s mandate in Public Policy Research, Drafting, and Capacity Building. He led advocacy campaigns that led to the passage of Unclaimed Financial Assets Bill 2011, Increased Taxation of Tobacco Products in 2015 through the Excise Bill 2015 and Development of a Mental Health Policy 2016 & Legislation.
These initiatives required leadership and skills in management due to the nature of work and the diversity brought by the partners. He led the process of material development for the projects and coordinating activities both at the local, national and at the global level.
He previously worked with Transparency International (Kenyan chapter) where he was responsible for coordinating the development of tools and publications to benchmark the nation’s progress in the fight against graft. He was part of the technical reference group that advised the Kenyan government on a governance, justice, law and order reform programme. During this period, he also served as in the technical team that produced the first ever strategic plan for the civil society in Kenya.
He has also worked with Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) which is civic forum that seeks to promote pluralism of ideas through open, active and informed debate on public policy issues, in the capacity of a Re- search Assistant. His duties involved coordinating the production of Policy research reports on constituency development, so as to facilitate the use of futures methodologies like visioning, scenarios building and strategic planning to improve the use of devolved funds at the constituency level.
He also served in the first Budget and Economic Forum of Baringo County Government. He has a vast experience in Devolution and has provided technical support to Baringo, Mombasa, Nakuru and Kisumu Counties in various capacities.
He was the first chairperson of Unclaimed Financial Assets Authority (UFAA) where together with others, laid a strong foundation for the institution, the first one of its kind in Africa. He is a subject matter expert and continues to provide support in the development of the unclaimed assets sector in Kenya and beyond.
He is also an expert on tobacco tax and he currently provides technical support to Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) that is implementing a project supported by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that is being implant- ed in Kenya, Zambia, Nigeria and DRC.
