Nelson Kuria: Former CIC boss talks retirement, boardroom egos, and gift of walking

CIC Insurance PLC Group Chairman Dr Nelson Kuria during an interview at his office in Nairobi on September 16, 2025.

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Dr Nelson Kuria has been in retirement for nearly a decade now. But has he? Retirement, he has discovered, is many things—one of them an oxymoron. He chuckles at the contradiction.

“I’m sometimes busier now than when I was a Group CEO,” he says from his office on the 11th floor of CIC headquarters. Behind him, a wooden coat hanger holds his jacket—a metaphor, really, like a footballer’s hung boots.

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