The Energy Charter Secretary General, Dr Urban Rusnák, visited Kenya’s capital Nairobi on 29 August 2016 to hold high level meetings with the Government officials. Kenya is the largest economy by GDP in Central and Eastern Africa where Nairobi stands out as a regional commercial hub. A member of the East African Community, Kenya expressed interest in the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) in the light of its reform agenda to further attract foreign direct investment in its energy sector. In this perspective, the Tokyo International Conference for Africa Development (TICAD) Conference was key to invite Kenya to become a signatory of the International Energy Charter, thereby achieving observer status to the Energy Charter Conference.