Idle Farah is the director general of the National Museums
of Kenya (NMK). Prior to becoming director general of NMK, he
was the director of the Institute of Primate Research in Kenya. A member
of the Commission for Higher Education in Kenya and University
Council of the University of Nairobi, he is also chairman of the board
of the Centre of Heritage Development in Africa (formerly the Programme
for Museum Development in Africa - PMDA). He is a primatologist
with a Ph.D. from Uppsala University, Sweden.