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| name=Ratemo Michieka
| nationality=[[Kenyan]]
| order=1st [[Vice Chancellor]] of [[Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology]]
| term_start=1989
| term_end=2003
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| successor=[[Nick Wanjoi]]
| birth_date=
| birth_place=[[Kisii, Kenya|Kisii]], [[Kisii District]], [[Nyanza province]], [[Kenya]]
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'''Ratemo Michieka''' is a former director-general of the [[National Environment Management Authority of Kenya|National Environmental Management Authority]] (NEMA) in [[Kenya]]; he is also the founding Vice-Chancellor of [[Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology]].<ref>[http://www.timesnews.co.ke/20jun06/nwsstory/news13.html Kibaki makes appointments] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717091932/http://www.timesnews.co.ke/20jun06/nwsstory/news13.html |date=2006-07-17 }}</ref>

For a long time, Michieka worked in education and agricultural policy in Eastern Africa. He earned a doctorate in weed science from Rutgers University. He returned to his native Kenya, where he taught and later became chairman of the Department of Crop Science at the [[University of Nairobi]]. In 1994, he was named vice chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in [[Nairobi]], Kenya, a post equivalent to a U.S. university president. He held the post until he was appointed Director General of the National Environmental Management Authority.<ref>''Daily Nation'', March 26, 2003: [http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/26032003/News/News12.html "Cheserem, Eshiwani sacked in major shake-up of govt institutions"]</ref>

==Politics==
In 2008, Ratemo Michieka ran for the parliamentary seat of Nyaribari Masaba. He came in third behind Prof. [[Sam Ongeri]] and Dr. [[Hezron Manduku]].

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