Prof. Mike Kuria is the CEO of the Commission for University Education (CUE), in Kenya. Previously, he was the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) whose mandate included quality of higher education in the East African Community (EAC) Partner States. Kuria has a wide experience with higher education and quality in the region having been the Director, Centre for Quality Assurance at Daystar University in Nairobi, Kenya for 10 years. 
From 2011-2015 he was the coordinating expert for a regional higher education quality assurance initiative by IUCEA in partnership with the German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD) in which he coordinated several capacity-building exercises including a regional QA framework for East Africa with supporting Handbooks “A Roadmap to Quality”. 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.