Jeremiah M. Nyegenye is the Clerk of the Senate of the bicameral Parliament of Kenya and the Secretary of the Parliamentary Service Commission. He has served in these positions since 2013.

Mr. Nyegenye is an alumnus of the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford where he attended the Executive Public Leaders Programme in 2019. He holds both a Bachelor of Laws degree and a Master of Laws degree (majoring in Public International Law) from the University of Nairobi and a Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law.

He is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, a Certified Secretary and a seasoned legislative drafter. He was part of the team which drafted the Proposed Constitution of Kenya, 2005 and the Constitution of Kenya of 2010. He also served as Secretary to the Committee of Eminent Persons on the Review of the Constitution of Kenya.

At the onset of his career, Mr. Nyegenye had a brief stint as a private legal practitioner before serving for a decade as a Parliamentary Counsel in the Office of the Attorney-General.

Mr. Nyegenye has, since 2011, served as the Patron of the Africa Colloquium of Legal Counsel to Parliaments; the premier continental organization for lawyers serving in legislatures.