The Association of Professional Societies in East Africa is a Joint Forum and an umbrella body of professionals associations established in 1961 comprising of a corporate membership of twenty eight (28) professional associations from diverse professional diciplines including law, acounting and finance, medicine, architecture, survey, planning, engineering, valuation, geology, food science, and technology and veterinary science among many others.
APSEA was established in 1961 as an umbrella body for all professional associations in the then East Africa protectorate. The main aim was to maintain, advance and advocate for the highest professionl standards and ethics in the public interest and to promote the interests of the member both regionally and internationally.