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Macharia Kamau (born 3 March 1958) was Kenya's Principal Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2019-2022). He previously served as Kenya's representative to the United Nations and as the former President of the UNICEF Executives Board.
In May 2016, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Kamau and Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on El Niño and Climate, tasking them with calling attention to the 60 million people around the world affected by severe El Niño-linked drought and climate impacts and mobilising an integrated response that takes preparedness for future climatic events into account. In October 2016, President of the United Nations General Assembly Peter Thomson created a Sustainable Development Goals implementation team "in order to motivate actors at global, regional, national, and community levels" and appointed Kamau as the Special Envoy on Implementation and Climate Change. This team's tasks were to raise public awareness of the goals and their importance and to push for the implementation of the goals to the fullest extent possible by related agencies.
Ambassador Kamau was appointed the Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kenya in February 2018. He left (retired) from that position sometime during 2022. . On 22 March 2018, Kamau left his positions at the UN and announced his departure to the public via Twitter.
In 2018, Kamau criticized The New York Times and Financial Times on their coverage of Kenya and stated that he hoped they would take an audit on their editorial position on the country.
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