Captain Irene Koki Mutungi is a commercial pilot in Kenya, the largest economy in the East African Community. She was the first woman on the African continent to pilot a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Her father was a commercial pilot with Kenya Airways. He has since retired and is an aviation consultant. Koki attended Moi Girls' School in Nairobi.
After graduating from high school in 1992, at the age of 17, she enrolled in a flight school at Nairobi's Wilson Airport, where she obtained her private pilot's license.
She continued her pilot studies in Oklahoma City, USA, where she obtained her Federal Aviation Authority commercial pilot license.