Con Omore Osendo
Senior Advisor, Governance
Con Omore Osendo is a senior governance and political economy expert with over two decades of experience advising governments, development partners and civil society on democratic governance, public financial management and institutional reform in Kenya and across the region. He has held senior advisory roles with the British High Commission in Nairobi, the Royal Danish Embassy in Nairobi, USAID's Parliamentary Support Programme, and Transparency International - Kenya , focusing on devolution, anti-corruption, elections, human rights, access to justice , public finance reform, and blue economy policy.
He currently serves as an associate consultant at South Consulting and a governance and public policy adviser to the Wellcome Trust in Kenya, alongside recent assignments with Open Society Foundation/Bajeti Hub, ITAD/FCDO, Transparency International Kenya/FCDO, the Institute for Public Finance, UNDP-Kenya, the World Bank - Kenya office and ACT-Change-Transform on fiscal governance, integrity systems, and sectoral political economy analysis.
He sits on several boards, including the Africa Governance Centre (Accra, Ghana), Media Focus on Africa (Netherlands and Kenya), HAKI Africa, Dorcas Aid, Trans -World Radio and the Emerging Public Leaders’ Kenya Advisory Board, bringing deep experience in stakeholder engagement, policy dialogue, and youth-focused governance initiatives.
Con holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Moi University and is pursuing an MA in International Relations at United States International University–Africa, complementing extensive professional training in decentralization (University of Western Cape), political economy analysis (The Policy Practice and ODI), public policy (Danish Fellowship Centre), programme management (KPMG), governance and human security (Institute for Security Studies) and anti-corruption (Les Aspin Centre for Government - Washington DC).
Con is an adjunct faculty at Strathmore University's Devolution and Public Financial Management Executive Program.
