DAVIS CHIRCHIR
| YEAR OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| GENDER | Male |
| OCCUPATION | Politician |
Biography
Davis Chirchir is the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Roads and Transport following an approval by the National Assembly.
Education
Chirchir holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in International Management from the Royal Holloway School of Management, University of London.
Additionally, he holds a Postgraduate Diploma in tele-Traffic Engineering from the University of Nairobi (UoN), and a bachelor’s degree in computer science and physics from the institution where he graduated in 1985.
Career
Chirchir was appointed as the Energy and Petroleum CS in 2022 but was dismissed again from his position alongside other CSs in June 2024.
Before former President Ruto nominated him as a CS for Energy, he was one of the most conspicuous politicians at State House functions.
Ruto had appointed Chirchir as the Chief of Staff in the Office of the Deputy President before the 2022 General Election following the death of Ken Osinde.
The rise of Davis Chirchir to become CS
Prior to the nomination, the 64-year-old Information Technology (IT) expert was among the founder members of President William Ruto‘s now-defunct United Republican Party (URP), together with former Energy CS Charles Keter.
The nomination, therefore, did not come as a surprise, given that it is Ruto who even proposed his nomination to the same position in the Jubilee government Cabinet after the 2013 General Election.
Before being appointed as a CS, the 64-year-old started his career in 1985 at the defunct Kenya Posts & Telecommunications Corporation (KPTC) as a tele-traffic engineer where he handled management of traffic engineering in telecommunication.
Chirchir quickly rose through the ranks to become the general manager for technical services in the telecommunications department, a position he held until the corporation was broken into three separate entities under a restructuring and privatization program in the late 1990s.
Out of KPTC was born Kenya Postal Corporation or Posta, the telecoms firm Telkom Kenya and the telecoms sector regulator then called the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), now the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA).
These changes left Chirchir in Telkom Kenya where he worked for a number of years as a senior manager.
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