Professor Waris is Deputy Principal, College of Humanities and Social Sciences; Director of Research and Enterprise and Associate Professor of Fiscal Law at the Law School, University of Nairobi in Kenya and Chairperson, Committee on Fiscal Studies. She holds a PhD in Tax Law and Development from Lancaster University, UK and two Master of Laws one in Human rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria in South Africa and another in Business and Commercial Law from the University of London. I hold an Undergraduate Law degree from the University of Nairobi. She is both a DAAD scholar and a scholar of the European Union. Professor Waris is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) and a Certified Public Secretary (Kenya). She comes from a strong mixed practitioner and academic background having worked in several countries in Africa in various diverse institutions including law firms, Non-Governmental Organisations as well as the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She specialises in tax policy and legislation and its analysis in research as well as in its practical analysis and application within the context of negotiations with revenue authorities and before tribunals and the judiciary in Africa.