Victoria Kipngetich

Biography

Victoria Kipngetich is a final-year student at Yale University majoring in Global Affairs. She is passionate about agency in Africa’s diplomatic relations and the democratization of foreign policy in the Kenyan context. Relating to these interests, Victoria has interned at the Kenya Mission to the UN, where she negotiated resolutions in the UN General Assembly and served as a speechwriter for the Kenyan Ambassador to the UN. She most recently interned at the Council on Foreign Relations, working to enhance U.S. policymakers’ understanding of political developments in East and Central Africa. Through the Yale Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, she has conducted research on the diplomatic strategies employed by Kenyan policymakers in response to emerging great power competition dynamics on the African continent. She intends to pursue this research further through a policy-prescriptive lens at Oxford, focusing on the fields of diplomacy and governance. Victoria is fluent in Swahili and French and has enjoyed learning Italian at Yale.