Mr. James Maina has been a Director, Planning in the State Department for Economic Planning. He headed the Monitoring Evaluation and Public Investment Management Directorate.
Mr. James Maina is a career public servant with 29 years of working experience in Macroeconomic and National Development Planning, International relations and Performance Management. He holds Masters and Bachelor’s degrees in Economics from University of Nairobi. He has also attended short courses in strategic leadership management; Global World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations; private sector driven regional development; performance management with balanced score card; fiscal decentralization; managing market economies in a globalizing world; management of South-South and Triangular Cooperation; and external resources management among others. James coordinated the preparation of the Fourth Medium Term Plan (MTP IV) of The Kenya Vision 2030 and was instrumental in coordinating preparation of the Third Medium Term Plan (MTP III). He has also coordinated country reporting on Africa Agenda 2063 First Ten Year Implementation Plan (FTYIP). He has built expansive experience in National Development Planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation; Economic Policy Formulation; Budgeting and Budget Execution; Strategic Planning; Management of Performance Contracting; Negotiations for Multilateral and Bilateral Cooperation Frameworks; Conference/Convention Coordination, Management and Logistics as well as Management of South-South and Triangular Cooperation.