Mercy Okiro is an Advocate of Kenya with over ten years of post-admission experience. She is an Accredited Tutor, Assessor and Accredited Mediator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London) and the Nairobi Centre for International Arbitration (NCIA) as well as an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Kenya School of Law and Strathmore University. Mercy holds a Master of Arts degree in International Studies from the University of Nairobi and a Master of Laws degree in International Commercial and Investment Arbitration from Queen Mary University of London. She holds professional certifications in corporate governance, trade law and policy, ESG governance, legal audits, arbitration, mediation and sports dispute resolution. She is currently getting her certifications in FIDIC contracts management and Construction Adjudication.

Mercy is on the panel of Neutrals of various institutions locally and regionally. She is also listed on the panel of lawyers of the Sports Disputes Tribunal in Kenya and the Court of Arbitration for Sports in Lausanne, Switzerland. She also sat on the Cricket Normalization Committee and has recently been elected to serve in the Court Users Committee of the Sports Dispute Tribunal in Kenya. She is the current Convenor of the Law Society of Kenya Sports Disputes Tribunal Bar-bench Committee.

Mercy is a former Vice Chairperson of the KEPSA Gender Sector Board and current Vice Chairperson and Acting Chairperson of the board of the National Construction Authority. She sits on the Council of the Association of Young Arbitrators, is an Advisory Board member of the Lagos Court of Arbitration (Young Arbitrators Network) and sits on the ADR Committee of East Africa Law Society. She also serves as an Ambassador for the Alliance for Equality in Dispute Resolution, Arbitrator Intelligence and Racial Equality for Arbitration Lawyers(REAL). She is part of the Steering Committee of the Equality for Representation in Arbitration, Africa. Mercy is also the Joint Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Africa Asia Mediation Association and a Fellow of the World Mediation Organization. She sits on the Sports, Arts, Culture and Heritage Board of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance, the National Technical Committees of the Kenya Bureau of Standards and the Ministry of Sports, Arts and Culture Working Groups amongst other local and international boards. She was the first Kenyan ICC YAAF Representative for Africa and on the Steering Committee of the Young Members Group of CIArb London as well as the founding Chair of the Young Members Group of CIArb Kenya. She also sits on the Ministry of Lands Physical and Land Use Planning Committee. Mercy has sat on other boards and served in various leadership positions.

She was feted in 2019 as the “The Young African Arbitration Practitioner of the year 2019”, was listed as one of Africa’s Most Promising Young Arbitrators 2020, 2021 and 2022 by the Association of Young Arbitrators, named as 2nd runner ADR Practitioner of the Year in 2021 by the Law Society of Kenya, Nairobi Branch. She was awarded the Jury’s Award in 2023 for her work in ADR by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Kenya and was 1 st Runners in the Category ‘Woman on Board in the 2023 Women on Boards Awards. She has been feted for her contributions to gender equality, leadership and alternative dispute resolution by various international and local organizations. She is a member of the Rotary Club of Kilimani and has recently taken up golf as a hobby, having previously been a volleyball and football player for leisure.