H.E President Uhuru Kenyatta; (born 26 October 1961) is a Kenyan politician and the fourth president of the Republic of Kenya. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gatundu South from 2002 to 2013. Currently the party leader and a member of the Jubilee Party of Kenya, he was previously involved with The National Alliance and before that the Kenya African National Union.
He then went on to study political science and economics at Amherst College in Massachusetts and graduated in 1985. His first foray into politics came in 1997 where he was elected as the chairman of his hometown branch of Kenya African National Union (KANU). Then in 2001, he was nominated for a parliament seat and became Minister of Local Government. After that, he held several government positions including the office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Ministry of Finance.