Prof. Attiya Waris appointed Deputy Principal, CHSS. She is the current Director of Research and Enterprise and is the only Professor of Fiscal Law and Policy in Eastern Africa. She holds a PhD in Law and is a specialist in Fiscal Law, Policy and Development. She is an advocate, company secretary and arbitrator of 20 years standing. She founded and chairs the Committee on Fiscal Studies where the team spearheaded the first agreement on sharing of data between a University and a revenue agency globally, between the University of Nairobi and the Kenya Revenue Authority and actively mentors the next generation of researchers. She currently teaches at the Law School, University of Nairobi; the Law School, University of Rwanda; and the Center for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. She has previously taught in Malaysia and the United Kingdom.
She has researched and published on global, African, Asian, European as well as Latin American issues.She has published over 40 articles, book chapters and reports. Her book 'Tax and Development’ (2013) is the first publication globally that links the areas of tax and human rights and her more recent publication ‘Financing Africa’ (2019) is the first publication globally to map out African fiscal systems.