Teodosia Osir, also Teddie Osir, is a Kenyan lawyer and

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, who is the

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and head of corporate affairs at

Kenya Airways Kenya Airways Ltd., more commonly known as Kenya Airways, is the flag carrier airline of Kenya. The company was founded in 1977, after the dissolution of East African Airways. Its head office is located in Embakasi, Nairobi, with its Airline hu ...

, an international airline based in

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, the capital and largest city in Kenya.

Background and education

Osir is a graduate of the

University of Nairobi The University of Nairobi (uonbi or UoN; ) is a college, collegiate research university based in Nairobi and is the largest List of universities and colleges in Kenya, university in Kenya. Although its history as an educational institution dat ...

School of Law, where she obtained her

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degree. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Law, awarded by the

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. From 1986 until 1987, she studied at the

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at its campus in

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, where she graduated with a Higher Diploma in Legislative Drafting. In 2007, she obtained a Diploma in Employee Relations, from the

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Career

Osir is a professional lawyer and a member of the Kenya Bar. She has worked in various capacities, both inside and outside of Kenya. For about one year, from October 2006 until October 2007, she was an associate director at David Lawrence and Associates, a corporate recruitment company for

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executives, based in

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. From November 2007 until March 2011, she worked as a contract specialist for

Qatar Airways Qatar Airways Company Q.C.S.C. (, ''al-Qaṭariyya''), operating as Qatar Airways, is the flag carrier of Qatar. Headquartered in the Qatar Airways Tower in Doha, the airline operates a hub-and-spoke network, flying to over 170 internatio ...

. She was then hired by Kenya Airways as the head of legal services from April 2011 until November 2017. In this position, she handled all of the company's commercial transactions, including equipment purchases and leases and related matters. In November 2017, the company , created a new department named Department of Corporate Affairs, charged with handling public relations, investor relations, legal matters, strategy and special projects. Osir's was promoted to general counsel to head the new department.

Family

She is married to Ellie Osir. Their son, Jeremy Ominde Osir, majored in

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at the

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in the United States.

References

External links

Website of Kenya Airways
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Background and education

Career

Family

See also

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