Amb. Prof Ruthie Chepkoech Rono is the Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs and Professor of Psychology at USIU-A. She is the immediate former Kenya High Commissioner to Zambia, Malawi and Permanent Representative to the Common Market to Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) from 2013 to 2014. She also served as Kenya’s Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary to the Kingdom of the Netherlands in The Hague with concurrent accreditation to the Czech Republic from 2007 to 2013.