Prof. Mike Kuria is the Commission Secretary of the Commission for University Education. Mike Kuria was formally the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Inter‐University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) whose mandate includes quality of higher education in the East African Community (EAC) Partner States. Prof. Kuria has wide experience with higher education and quality in the region having been the Director of the Centre for Quality Assurance at Daystar University for 10 years from 2011 to 2015. He was the founding Secretary General of the East African Quality Assurance Network (EAQAN). He holds a PhD in English from the University of Leeds, UK.