Rt. Hon. David Ekwee Ethuro EGH, is the former and first Speaker of the modern Senate of the Republic of Kenya. He launched his political career as a young man aged 31 at the dawn of ICPD in 1994. In 1997, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Turkana, a county in Kenya that which borders Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia. He has also served as an Assistant Minister for Planning and National Development in the 8th and the 9th Parliaments; and as a Member of the Speaker’s panel of the National Assembly in the 9th and 10th Parliaments. During his tenure as a young parliamentarian, Rt. Hon. Ethuro chaired various committees and caucus including the Budget Committee, Bunge Health Club, Kenya Parliamentarians Network on Population and Development, Constitutional Oversight and Implementation, Information, Communication & Technology among others.

He also played a pivotal role in the establishment of parliamentary caucuses such as being the founder Secretary General of the Population and Development Network, the Pastoralists Parliamentary Group, the Children's Parliamentary Network, the Kenya Women Parliamentary Association, the Parliamentary Network on Poverty Reduction & MDGs, the Parliamentary Committee to investigate Illegal Organizations and the Eradication of Cattle Rustling.

He actively and successfully mid-wifed the globally acclaimed Constitution of Kenya in 2010, contributed particularly to framing the robust Bill of Rights and Devolution. He has always brought issues from the back burner to mainstream policy formulation agenda and these issues include Poverty Eradication, Population Development, Reproductive Health, Gender, Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation, Internally Displaced People, Good Governance, Pastoralism, Emergencies (Droughts, Famines), Food Aid, Youth, and rights of Minorities and Marginalized communities. At the same time he canvassed robustly issues of mainstream economics such as Agriculture and the East African Community etc.

Rt Hon Ethuro in his time served as an active member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and was elected as Vice President of the IPU representing Africa Region during the 131st Assembly in Lusaka, Zambia in 2016. He has also served as President of the Forum of the Parliaments of Member States of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (FP-ICGLR). He currently serves as the Chairman of the Higher Education Loans Board.

Rt Hon. Ethuro is a Masters Graduate Msc Applied Economics from Clemson University, USA; Bsc Agriculture and LLB Law University of Nairobi. He is also currently pursuing his Phd in Organizational Development at the Management University of Africa.