Njoki Mboce is a lawyer, consultant, academic and policy advisor. She is also a certified civil and commercial mediator and qualified arbitrator. Born and raised next to Kilindini Harbor, West of Mombasa Island, Njoki’s passion for the maritime space started at a tender age. She has grown to blend this with her other passions: law policy and security. Njoki is a practising advocate of the High court of Kenya, and a founding partner at the firm of Njoki Mboce & Company advocates. She teaches at the University of Nairobi, where she is also pursuing a PhD, with a focus on maritime delimitation disputes, an aspect of maritime security. She is an expert consultant in the same field.

In other relevant roles, Njoki serves as Senior Associate Fellow at the Africa Policy Institute, Research Associate with SAFESEAS, a pilot project that studies lessons from maritime security capacity building in the Western Indian Ocean. She is also a member of the implementing committee of the FishFORCE Academy model in Kenya on combating maritime crime.

Njoki is a former Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (New Delhi, India) on India-Kenya Maritime Security Co-operation. She is also a nominated Visiting Scholar at the Leiden Centre for Legal and Comparative Studies of the East African Community, Netherlands.

When away from the maritime agenda, Njoki offers pro bono trial advocacy training to lawyers in Botswana, Uganda and Kenya, with Justice Advocacy Africa, a non-profit American based institution and the respective law societies.