Biography
Mary Ongore is a Kenyan legal professional with extensive experience in taxation. She holds an LLB degree from the University of Leeds, and an LLM in Tax Law from Queen Mary University of London. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Nairobi, specialising in tax. Her research revolves around international tax, fiscal policy, and illicit financial flows. Mary worked as a Tax Advisor at KPMG in the UK, and an employment tax advisor at Zurich Insurance in the UK. She has since worked for Strathmore University as a Doctoral Fellow, at the University of Nairobi as a Tutorial Fellow, and at Dentons Hamilton
Harrison & Mathews as a Tax Associate. She has conducted research on tax and
gender, tax treaties, tax and human rights, and taxpayers’ rights as an
independent consultant
