David Deng Athorbei

David Deng Athorbei is born in 1949 (officially estimated age) in a village near the town of Yirol.

While working for the local government offices of Upper Nile province and Bahr El Ghazal province, he followed diploma courses at the University of Birmingham (Development Administration, 1979) and the University of Manchester (Local Planning, 1984).

From 1987 to 1989 he worked for the relief organization Band Aid of Bob Geldof at their Khartoum office.

As of mid 1989 David Deng Athorbei worked for the UNDP in Ethiopia for one year, after which he joined the SPLM.

[7] David Deng Athorbei is a Member of Parliament for Yirol West county since 9 July 2011.