Fredrick Muyia Nafukho serves as vice provost for Academic Personnel, professor of Management and Organization, Foster School of Business, and Presidential Term Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. He previously served as a professor of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development and associate dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University.
Fredrick Muyia Nafukho earned a B.Ed. in Business Studies and Economics and an M.Ed. in Economics of Education from Kenyatta University, Kenya. He earned his Ph.D. in Leadership and Human Resource Development from Louisiana State University. He attended Harvard's Management Development Program (MDP) offered by Harvard Institutes for Higher Education and was certified in 2013.
Nafukho has served on the faculty of four institutions of higher education: University of Washington, Texas A&M University, University of Arkansas and Moi University. He has been an associate dean for faculty affairs, a department head, a program chair, and a professor (at Texas A&M); an associate professor, a graduate program director, and an assistant department head (at University of Arkansas); and a department head and senior lecturer (at Moi University).
Nafukho's research focuses on educational policy analysis within international and comparative education, investment in human capital development, emotional intelligence and leadership development, organisational development, human and organisational learning including the transfer of learning, e-learning and lifelong learning.
The African Ubuntu worldview of "I am because we are" is articulated in his two books published by Pearson Education and UNESCO, Foundations of Adult Education in Africa, and Management of Adult Education Organisations in Africa.