Lukoye Atwoli is a Professor of Psychiatry and the Dean of the Aga Khan University Medical College, East Africa. He is also the Associate Director of the Brain and Mind Institute at AKU. He practices psychiatry at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi. Prof Atwoli is an Honorary Professor in the department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town, and collaborates with colleagues all over the world in research and teaching in psychiatry and mental health.

Prof Atwoli is widely published, and his current research interests are centered on trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder and the genetics of mental disorders.

Prof Atwoli is the President of the African College of Neuropsychopharmacology (AfCNP), and Secretary-General of the African Association of Psychiatrists (AAP). He is the Chairperson of the Board of the Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital, the only specialized mental health care facility in Kenya, and co-chairs the Board on Global Health of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. He is an International Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (IFAPA), and holds one of the highest national honours in Kenya, the Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear (M.B.S.).