Amos is the Founder and CEO of Great Lakes Safaris Ltd. and Uganda Lodges Ltd. He has been promoting Uganda for over 20 years and is privileged to have seen a lot of changes in Uganda and East Africa. Amos is a well-known advocate for social and economic development through tourism initiatives. He is often a key note speaker at international and national conferences and events on topics ranging from economic investment, sustainable tourism, entrepreneurship and youth development. He has addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Entrepreneurship for Development and has been featured on CNN’s African Voices. He received a Titan Regional Award and Continental Award in Leisure and Tourism for his success in promoting local tourism in Uganda. Amos continues to be a leading consultant on all matters tourism and an ambassador not just for Great Lakes Safaris and Uganda Lodges but Uganda.
#UEUBF2022 Speakers
H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
President of the Republic of Uganda
H.E. Jan Sadek
Ambassador - European Union Delegation to the Republic of Uganda
H.E. Jan Sadek
Ambassador - European Union Delegation to the Republic of Uganda
Ambassador Jan Sadek is the Head of the EU Delegation to Uganda. He is a Swedish career diplomat; his first posts abroad include Prague (Czech Republic), Moscow (Russia) and Minsk (Belarus).
After three years as Head of the Consular Section at the MFA in Stockholm, in the aftermath of the Tsunami, he was in 2008 appointed Ambassador of Sweden to Sudan – liking it so much that he stayed for five years. During that time, he was furthermore accredited to the Republic of South Sudan as of 2011.
From 2013 to 2017, Ambassador Sadek was the Swedish Ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union in Addis Ababa, with an accreditation also to Djibouti and to IGAD.
After his return to Stockholm, he took a year of paternity leave with his two youngest children.
In 2018, he was appointed Ambassador of the European Union to Botswana and to the regional economic community SADC (Southern African Development Community).
By training, Ambassador Sadek has a degree in medicine. He also served as a UN Officer during the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina and as a member of the OSCE Mission to Sarajevo, in 1994-1995.
He speaks Swedish, English, Russian, French, Czech and some Bosnian.
Ambassador Sadek is married to a Swedish diplomat, and they have three children.
Mr. Elly Karuhanga
Chairman of Private Sector Foundation Uganda
Hon. Evelyn Anite
Minister of State for Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Privatisation and Investment)
Hon. Evelyn Anite
Minister of State for Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Privatisation and Investment)
Hon. Francis Mwebesa
Minister of Trade Industry and Cooperatives
Hon. Frank Tumwebaze
Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries
Hon. Col. Tom R Butime
Minister of Tourism Wildlife and Antiquities
Jaroslav Hanák
President of the Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic
Claudia Voss
Managing Director - Afrika-Verein (AV)
Claudia Voss
Managing Director - Afrika-Verein (AV)
Claudia Voss is managing director and head of the countries and markets department at Afrika-Verein (AV). She has been working for AV since 2015, initially as press spokeswoman. Before that, Voss worked in various media companies, most recently as head of duty at a local Hamburg television broadcaster and for various publications by Axel Springer Verlag. Voss studied at the University of Hamburg, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, the Bayero University in Nigeria and the Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal.
Brig. Gen. Henry Isoke
Head - State House Anti-corruption Unit (SH-ACU)
Mr. Eloi Granboulan
Executive International Director - Suez Consulting
Mr. Eloi Granboulan
Executive International Director - Suez Consulting
18 years of experience within SUEZ, a global and diversified industry leader with a more than 160-year experience in Water and Waste services. He started his career with Suez in 2004 in South America, before managing water treatment infrastructure projects in North Africa, and then becoming CEO of an entity dedicated to prefabricated drinking water production plants. He then led a strategic transformation program of the Water O&M business in France. He is currently International Executive Director of Suez Consulting, the group's engineering and consulting unit.
Enrique Martínez
Country Manager Imathia Global Group
Enrique Martínez
Country Manager Imathia Global Group
Mechanical Engineer specialized in railways through several master's degrees, as well as Executive Master in Business Administration. Enrique has more than twenty years of experience in the railway sector.
He has delivered projects in prestigious companies on the front line in all phases of the life cycle of railways systems, such as the design and manufacture of rolling stock, construction, commissioning and opening of new railway infrastructures, as well as operation, maintenance and asset management.
Howard Ayo
Human Rights Officer, United Nations Human Rights
Jackie Nandawula
Energy advisor - Energy and Climate cluster of GIZ
Jackie Nandawula
Energy advisor - Energy and Climate cluster of GIZ
Jackie is an investment and policy enthusiast, very zealous about green banking and investment. She has 7 years’ experience in the renewable energy sector, in designing, implementing and monitoring social centered projects and research. Jackie has a degree in Entrepreneurship and business management, a post graduate diploma in public policy analysis and governance and is a trainer of trainers in green energy and climate finance from the renewable Energies Academy.
Jackie currently works as an energy advisor with the Energy and Climate cluster of GIZ where she focuses on energy investment and framework conditions.
Lisa Poisson-Quinton
Technical Advisor - GET.invest
Lisa Poisson-Quinton
Technical Advisor - GET.invest
Lisa is a technical advisor at GET.invest. She has worked in the renewable energy sector for the past 5 years: 2 years in Togo where she supported the electrification agency to implement the Togolese electrification strategy, and since 2020 for GET.invest, where she is in charge of partnerships with business association.
Florent Geerts
Business Unit Director - Delft Imaging
Florent Geerts
Business Unit Director - Delft Imaging
Florent Geerts is a Business Unit Director at the healthcare company Delft Imaging. With an educational background in Business and Entrepreneurship, he is operationally co-responsible for the company and its activities across sixty countries globally. He is also an advisor to the sister company of Delft Imaging, Thirona – a high-tech scale up that specialises in the development of artificial intelligence solutions for CT scans, chest X-rays and retinal images. He is also a member of the steering committee for the ASEAN region at the Dutch Task Force Health Care, and a mentor and coach to innovative start-ups.
Sjaak de Bloois
Head of Sustainability & Agronomy - UGACOF LTD
Carsten Sorensen
Deputy Head of the Private Sector, Trade & Employment Unit - European Commission’s International Partnerships Directorate-General
Carsten Sorensen
Deputy Head of the Private Sector, Trade & Employment Unit - European Commission’s International Partnerships Directorate-General
Carsten Sorensen is currently deputy head of the private sector, trade and employment unit in the European Commission’s International Partnerships Directorate-General. He has been with the Commission since 1995, in charge of both internal market and external relations files. Carsten has notably occupied different positions in external trade, political relations and development DGs, including a stint as trade counsellor in the EU Delegation to India. He has been in DG Development/International Partnerships since 2015, where he was deputy head of interinstitutional relations prior to his current assignment.
Philippe Groueix
General Manager - Total Energies EP Uganda
Regina Mwenyango
Electrical Engineer - Global Green Growth Institute
Regina Mwenyango
Electrical Engineer - Global Green Growth Institute
Regina Mwenyango, Electrical Engineer by training. Currently work with the Global Green Growth Institute in the Uganda Country Office as Industrial Development Officer. My role is to support development of an Industrial sector that is Economically Sustainable, Environmentally friendly and Socially Inclusive.
Collin Babirukamu
Director E-Government Services - NITA
Collin Babirukamu
Director E-Government Services - NITA
Collin has over 20 years’ experience in leadership and business transformation using Information Technology.
Before NITA-U he worked as the Cloud Territory Leader at Oracle Corporation East Africa since August 2018 , he was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Head of IT at NSSF – Uganda where he spearheaded business transformation of the back end operations, customer facing systems and change management using innovative technology solutions.
Collin holds a Bachelor’s of Computer Science (BCS) from Mbarara University of Science & Technology and a Master’s in Leadership Development in ICT & the Knowledge Society from the University of Mauritius. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Leicester (UK) and another Post Graduate Diploma in ICT & Knowledge Society from Dublin City University (Ireland).
Jakob Hornbach
CEO and Co-Founder - Bodawerk International Ltd
Jakob Hornbach
CEO and Co-Founder - Bodawerk International Ltd
Jakob Hornbach is the CEO and Co-Founder of Bodawerk International Ltd. a Ugandan Lithium-Ion battery and e-mobility company. He obtained his masters in Industrial Engineering at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany and worked in the fields of rapid prototyping and agile product development previously. Jakob is now leading the company with a vision of a green and industrialized Uganda. The products developed and manufactured in Uganda include Lithium-Ion battery packs and electric motorcycles (E-Boda) among others. Bodawerks business model rotates around a shared and circular economy of Lithium-Ion batteries and represents core values of 'Responsibility', 'Teamwork' and 'Equality & Tolerance'.
JamesOne Olonya
President - UNABCEC
JamesOne Olonya
President - UNABCEC
JamesOne has over 30 years’ experience in the Construction Industry. He is the current
President of Uganda National Association of Building & Civil Engineering Contractors
(UNABCEC)—an umbrella body that brings together International, Local, Resident and National
Construction Providers; with the mission to promote and protect the shared interests of the
construction industry, through mobilization, advocacy, networking, and innovative service
provision.
Olonya is the Founder and Chairing Director of ANINELIA GENIC Ltd, Education, Construction and
Consultancy Services’ Provider. He sits in various Boards in Leadership and Management Sector;
an Elder and Member of the Church Governing Council of Watoto Church, and Chairperson of
the Church’s Contracts and Land Committees.
He has work experience with wide-ranging stakeholders; Clients, Consultants, Contractors and
Subcontractors; having been engaged across-the-board on Development and Infrastructure
projects; including Uganda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Kenya, India and the Democratic Republic
of Congo.
JamesOne has been pivotal in providing leading Contract Management Services in major
construction firms, including being the Country Rep of M/S SADEEM Al-KUWAIT Trading Co. Ltd,
Board Director Contract Manager M/S DOTT SERVICES LTD, M/S GENERAL COMPANY FOR ROADS
& BRIDGES-EGYPTS, M/S STIRLING INT. LTD., SKANSKA JENSEN INT., M/S COLAS, PHIL &
INTERTECH, World Food Programme, M/S ASSIST SS; among others. He has many years of
experience preparing and defending Contractors’ Claims, Independent Reviewer of Projects in
Dispute, Contractual Advices, Adjudication and Expert Witness Works.
George Bamugemereire
Lead Consultant - HIM Consult Limited
George Bamugemereire
Lead Consultant - HIM Consult Limited
George has had a varied career both in the private and public sector. Over the last 30 years, George has built a multidisciplinary career in Legal, Human Resource and Corporate Governance. He held Legal and HR roles with Shell International in Africa, Europe and Latin America. Currently George heads Bamugemereire & Company Advocates and is a Lead Consultant of HIM Consult Limited a Governance, Strategic Policy formulation and Research Company.
Marjolein Bommerez
Deputy Managing Director and Head of Customer Experience - ENGIE Energy Access Uganda
Marjolein Bommerez
Deputy Managing Director and Head of Customer Experience - ENGIE Energy Access Uganda
As Deputy Managing Director and Head of Customer Experience for ENGIE Energy Access Uganda, Marjolein is leading a cross-functional and geographically distributed team in achieving the EEA mission of delivering affordable, reliable and sustainable energy solutions and life-changing services with exceptional customer experience. Prior to joining ENGIE, Marjolein was a UK-based senior management consultant at IBM, working primarily with clients in energy & utilities, telecom and media & entertainment. She led customer-centric strategy and design projects but also delivered organizational, process and system change on large business transformation programmes. Marjolein has a long-standing interest in sustainable development, having also worked for the Climate Change Unit of the European Commission early on in her career and choosing sustainable development policy as the topic for her Masters dissertation.
Atukwase Nicholas
Production and Projects Manager - KK Fresh Produce Exporters Limited
Atukwase Nicholas
Production and Projects Manager - KK Fresh Produce Exporters Limited
A Crop Scientist-Horticulture, with over 10 years experience in Horticultural Production for Export, Post harvest management, Quality Assurance, Agribusiness, Agricultural Projects management, rural and Community Developments as well as Public-Private Partnerships.
Moses Sabiiti
Vice Chairperson - Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development
Moses Sabiiti
Vice Chairperson - Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development
Moses is highly experienced and self-motivated specialist in Trade Facilitation, Regional Integration and Logistics with over 27 years’ progressive experience. Moses possesses national and regional experience in trade policy and trade facilitation. He was appointed on to the Presidential Investors’ Round Table where he has immensely contributed to the sectors of Trade, Transport and Logistics in the region (2019 to date). In March 2022 Moses was appointed on the Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development (PACEID). Moses is the Deputy Vice Chairman on the advisory committee. PACIED is composed of the private sector and public sector institutions, PACEID provides strategic advice to the President on Key interventions that accelerate exports and industrial development. He is experienced in managing business. Moses is the Managing Director of Exxor Fuels Ltd that has a partnership with Shell/ Vivo energy to import fuel and manage downstream fuel and lubricants distribution. While in URA, he was recognized for outstanding performance with a lifetime award for excellent collaboration with URA to design trade facilitation institutions that included Automation of Customs systems and re-engineering of border processes. Moses brings proven value as a strategic advisor with over 17 years of visionary leadership at senior management level and demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary environment with stakeholders in Government, Donors, Private Sector and civil society.
Dr. Paul Wambu
Commissioner Crop Inspection and Certification - Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF)
Dr. Paul Wambu
Commissioner Crop Inspection and Certification - Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF)
Dr. Paul Wambu, served as the project Coordinator of the Uganda Multi-sectoral Food Security and Nutrition Project (UMFSNP) and is currently the commissioner Crop Inspection and Certification at Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF). He possesses vast experience, spanning 22 years in the management of projects and programs with proven solutions to ending hunger and poverty using sustainable practices in integrated agriculture, climate change resilient rural agriculture practices and their staff.
Fred Zaake
Executive Director - HortiFresh & Managing Director - InterAfrica Corporate Limited
Fred Zaake
Executive Director - HortiFresh & Managing Director - InterAfrica Corporate Limited
Fred is the Managing Director for InterAfrica Corporate Limited, a management consultancy and business development services firm, and The Executive Director for HortiFresh, the Apex Body for the fresh fruits and vegetables sector. Fred is an expert at nurturing, incubating and supporting business membership organizations towards sector led policy advocacy and PPD, inclusion, sustainability and growth. He has also scoped and designed a trade facilitation project on e-Commerce, SPS for Horticulture for the World Economic Forum and the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, and also Supported export promotion and diversification in Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Nepal, Angola, Madagascar.
Fred holds a Bachelor of Laws from Makerere University, a post Grad Diploma in Legal practice (Advocate of the High court of Uganda) and is a London School of Economics (LSE, LLM Merit) trained Senior international finance, trade and investment lawyer, SME and financial sector development practitioner with over 30 years’ technical and executive-level experience and exposure across over 40 countries, supporting governments, donors, SMEs, business associations and civil society organizations while working with various organizations like the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank, Uganda Manufacturers’ Association, among others. He has over a decade of experience Managing and Consulting for Public, Private Sector and Development Partner Corporations or Programs funded by the World Economic Forum, Swisscontact, DFID / FCDO, USAID, DANIDA, EU, UNDP, UNICO, UNCTAD, among others.
Dr. Elly Twineyo
Executive Director - Uganda Export Promotion Board
Dr. Elly Twineyo
Executive Director - Uganda Export Promotion Board
Dr. Elly Twineyo is an economist, an author on economic growth, practitioner in both international business and development management and the current Executive Director for the Uganda Export Promotion Board (UEPB).
He is the co-founder of ACTADE (Africa Centre for Trade and Development) and has had a long career working in the private sector, donor projects, government, academia and civil society. He has made several presentations to business associations, academia and government and written several articles in in different media.
Emmanuel Mutahunga
Commissioner for External Trade - Ministry of Trade, Industry and Co-operatives
Emmanuel Mutahunga
Commissioner for External Trade - Ministry of Trade, Industry and Co-operatives
Mr. Emmanuel Mutahunga, is the Commissioner for External Trade at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Co-operatives in Uganda. He is an economist by training and holds a master’s degree in Economics (Economic Policy and Planning) and a post graduate Diploma in Trade Policy. He obtained both his first and graduate degrees form Makerere University. He has over 20 years working experience in the areas of economic policy formulation and implementation, research, trade negotiations, strategic economic planning and management. Mr. Mutahunga worked with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in the Trade and Macroeconomics.
Mr. Mutahunga has served at the Ministry since 2003, and in the process handled several technical, strategic and management assignments. He has been instrumental in drafting several policy documents, such as The National Trade Policy, National Industrial Policy, National Export Development Strategy, the Competitiveness and Investment Climate Strategy, among others.
Margot Lobezoo
Team Manager - Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI)
Margot Lobezoo
Team Manager - Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI)
Margot Lobezoo is Team Manager, Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI).
Inez van Oord
Co-Founder - Fiber Foods
Inez van Oord
Co-Founder - Fiber Foods
Inez van Oord is an entrepreneur at heart and an active networker in business communities in the Netherlands and East Africa. Since 2019 she is building a business in natural ingredients from the African agroforest for the plant-based food chain development. This business supplies dried fibers from the African agroforest to clean food labels worldwide. Long fibers from the equator provide a strong bite and a healthier product.
Johan Verhoek
Sales Manager Africa - Royal De Heus Group / Koudijs Animal Nutrition
Johan Verhoek
Sales Manager Africa - Royal De Heus Group / Koudijs Animal Nutrition
Royal De Heus is a family owned company with their Head Office in the Netherlands. The first generation of this feed millers family stated their operation in a traditional wind powered mill in 1717. Now a little over 300 years later, the present generation extended the company to a leading supplier of feed solutions world wide
As a family business in animal nutrition we provide a growing contribution towards sustainable production of safe and healthy food. We do this by advancing our customers – the producers of meat, fish, milk, and eggs – and by continuously improving quality, transparency, and cooperation throughout the food production chain.
De Heus Animal Nutrition contributes towards the sustainable availability and accessibility of safe and healthy food worldwide. We do this with the utmost care for climate, environment, and animal welfare.
With our products, knowledge and experience we contribute to the development of the agricultural sector, the improvement of living conditions and economic development in the local communities in which we operate. We achieve this with involved and entrepreneurial employees, who continue to develop themselves. Together we take responsibility to realize our vision every day.
With an experienced team of a great number of professionals, working all over the world, we make sure you can convert raw materials into animal proteins as efficiently and sustainably as possible. Guaranteeing the best for your animals as well as your business.
De Royal De Heus group is present in more then 75 countries worldwide and is a partner for farmers, distributors, integrations and feed factory producing more then 12 million tons of feed solutions annually.
Johan Verhoek, Sales Manager Africa is responsible for the development of our markets throughout Africa looking for the most viable options to supply our customers with the best feed solutions. We currently have 11 Feed factories in Africa.
Opolot L’akwang
Programme Manager - Konrad Adenaeur Foundation Office Uganda and South Sudan
Opolot L’akwang
Programme Manager - Konrad Adenaeur Foundation Office Uganda and South Sudan
Opolot L’akwang is a WEF Global Shaper, Cyber Lawyer and Social Innovation Expert with extensive experience working in East Africa's Innovation Ecosystem and International Development sectors. He currently serves as a Programme Manager at the Konrad Adenaeur Foundation Office Uganda and South Sudan.
He’s passionate about fostering Africa's creative economy, civic technology and sustainable development. Opolot is motivated by servant leadership, building and leapfrogging African development. His conviction is driven by the need to change Africa’s narrative and be able to transform communities.
The desire to motivate young people, inspire and catalyze innovative ideas is his sole ambition for Africa. I believe that young people (united by their desire to bring about social change) have a critical role towards shaping the future of our societies.
William Babigumira
Certified Trade Adviser
William Babigumira
Certified Trade Adviser
His Specialties: Business Development/Management Consulting using the Business Management System (TM) of the International Trade Centre (ITC-UNCTAD). Information Technology and Systems Management. Value Chain Analysis. Strategic planning (Balanced Scorecard methodology). Export Marketing Planning.
Silver Kayondo
Corporate & Commercial Legal/Regulatory Counsel - Ortus Advocates- Uganda
Silver Kayondo
Corporate & Commercial Legal/Regulatory Counsel - Ortus Advocates- Uganda
A Ugandan and South African dual-trained lawyer and social entrepreneur, Silver has diverse experience in law, technology, innovation, Venture Capital & Private Equity funds.
He specializes in legal, policy, transactional & regulatory mandates for financial institutions and emerging technology companies such as Fintechs, Techfins, e-Commerce platforms, Blockchain, and AI assisting both domestic/African and foreign clients to resolve internal & external challenges and maximize sustainable value/growth/expansion from the digital economy.
His key clients include Facebook/Meta, Uber, Bolt (formerly Taxify), Huawei, Vivendi, Engie, Diamond Trust Bank, Ecobank, Wave, Cellulant, the Uganda Bankers' Association, National Drug Authority, Quality Supermarket, Numida, Xente, among others.
He is inspired by innovative problem solving and shares passion for philanthropy, tourism and environmental conservation in his native community of Tooro region, western Uganda with its beautiful crater lakes, birds and primate species.
Angelo Izama
Director - Uganda Investment Authority
Angelo Izama
Director - Uganda Investment Authority
Angelo Izama is a Ugandan journalist, writer, and analyst. He is the Head of Faculty at the Leo Africa Institute, a leadership academy and Pan-African Thought Leadership platform that is focused on fostering next generation servant leaders.
Mr. Izama is a director at the Uganda Investment Authority where he focuses on advancing domestic participation in the Ugandan economy through impact investment and Joint Ventures. He is recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships, including the Open Society Fellowship, the Knight Fellowship at Stanford University, the Center for Democracy and Rule of Law (CDDRL) fellowship and the Reagan-Fascell Democracy fellowship. Following a lifelong commitment to human rights and freedom of expression in particular he also sits on the boards of Chapter Four Uganda and the Media Challenge Initiative.
He splits his time between Kampala, Palo Alto and Abu Dhabi
Burkhard Volbracht
Head of Unit Talent and International - Berlin Partner for Business and Technology
Burkhard Volbracht
Head of Unit Talent and International - Berlin Partner for Business and Technology
Burkhard Volbracht, Head of Unit Talent and International, has worked with labour market policies and investment promotion for the city of Berlin for nearly a decade. The capital of Germany has acquired that special something that attracts both creatives as well as startups, entrepreneurs and students. Since then, he has been working on solutions to bring these talents to Berlin quickly and easily and to welcome them here.
He knows long-term strategic talent attraction, working with HR and labour market policy, business development, marketing Berlin Sciences and focusing on innovation and technology. All of this in a multi-stakeholder engagement. Furthermore, he is working on building international networks and initiated the AfricaBerlinNetwork.
Anna Wiese
Project Manager International Startups - Berlin Partner for Business and Technology
Anna Wiese
Project Manager International Startups - Berlin Partner for Business and Technology
Anna Wiese is Project Manager International Startups at Berlin Partner for Business and Technology, based in Berlin. Driven by the vision to build bridges between international start-up ecosystems, Anna has gained a lot of international experience as she already lived in China and France. In her opinion talking about expertise, sharing experiences and learning from each other is the key to a successful internationalization worldwide. In addition, she is part of international networks such as the Start Alliance, Scale Cities and the Africa Berlin Network.
Jonathan Maraka
Project Leader - Open Capital
Jonathan Maraka
Project Leader - Open Capital
Jonathan is a Project Leader with Open Capital, a management consulting and financial advisory firm that has completed over 1,000 engagements and raised USD 1 billion for businesses across 25 countries in Africa. Over the past 6 years, Jonathan has worked with investors, businesses and development partners in the renewable energy sector across 8 countries in East, West, and Southern Africa.
He has worked across supply and demand sides of the finance landscape including providing renewable energy companies with technical assistance to improve strategies to scale and raise capital as well as supporting private investment firms and local banks develop market entry strategies for the sector and deploy capital. He has written reports published through programs funded by the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and Shell Foundation on access to finance, taxes, subsidies and other regulatory framework themes in the renewable energy sector focusing on Uganda, Malawi, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. Jonathan most recently led a team that developed a market landscape study on Uganda's productive use of energy including an assessment of the regulatory and finance landscape. This study was informing interventions of a 5-year donor funded program aimed at deploying USD 140M in renewable energy, agriculture, and healthcare sectors in Uganda.
Laura Kübke
Business Scout for Development in Uganda - German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Laura Kübke
Business Scout for Development in Uganda - German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Laura Kübke is working on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) as a Business Scout for Development in Uganda. The Business Scouts for Development promote sustainable and responsible engagement by the private sector in around 30 countries across the globe. They advise German, European and local companies on development policy matters and promote responsible business engagement through cooperation projects. The Business Scouts for Development work closely with partners from business associations and institutions and from TVET organisations both in Germany and in each country.
Rosette Nagimesi
Senior Knowledge Management Advisor - GIZ Energy and Climate Programme
Rosette Nagimesi
Senior Knowledge Management Advisor - GIZ Energy and Climate Programme
Rosette is a trained Public Relations and Communications specialist with over 12 years’ experience in both fields. She has over the years attained experience in different fields including developing communication strategies, behavioral change communications, events management, project management, civil society engagement and gender mainstreaming.
Rosette currently works with the GIZ Energy and Climate Programme, as a Senior Knowledge Management Advisor
Dr. Nicholas Mukisa
CEO – Uganda National Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Alliance (UNREEEA)
Dr. Nicholas Mukisa
CEO – Uganda National Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Alliance (UNREEEA)
Dr. Nicholas holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Renewable Energy. He has over five years of experience in lecturing and research about renewable energies and their adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa countries, particularly Uganda. Nicholas currently services as the chief executive officer of UNREEEA – Uganda National Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Alliance, an apex body that represents private sector businesses and actors in the renewable energy subsector to government.
Richard Zulu
Founder - Outbox
Richard Zulu
Founder - Outbox
Richard Zulu is the founder and lead at Outbox, an innovation and entrepreneurship support organisation that brings together the capital, knowledge, infrastructure and people necessary to help small and growing businesses to succeed.
He is also the chairperson of Startup Uganda, an association of 28 innovation and entrepreneurship support organisations working together to improve collective capacities, influence, and impact, and to create a more enabling environment for innovators and entrepreneurs.
He is a member of the innovation and BPO Council under the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance.
He has over twelve years of experience in building support systems for startups, software developer communities and small and growing businesses in Uganda.
Through his work, he has supported in the design and management of innovation challenge initiatives with various partners some of whom include Google, NSSF, UNFPA, UNICEF, MTN Uganda, to mention but a few. He is currently supporting a portfolio of over 100 businesses per year to become more competitive and investment ready through the various enterprise development initiatives at Outbox. He is passionate about leveraging human centred design approaches for product design and development.
He is an East African Acumen Fellow 2014 and a US International Visitors Leadership Program Alumni.
Jeanette Scherpenzeel
Lead Program Manager for Sustainable Tourism Development - Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI)
Jeanette Scherpenzeel
Lead Program Manager for Sustainable Tourism Development - Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI)
Jeanette Scherpenzeel is Lead Program Manager for Sustainable Tourism Development at CBI, the Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries. Under the mandate of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, CBI strengthens Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to connect to European markets with a sustainable product offer aligned to European demand. In the past 8 years, Jeanette learned her way around the tourism sector. She designed and implemented sustainable tourism projects in Uganda, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. Jeanette believes in development by developing sustainable business. Which is what she finds in CBI: support tour operators and tourism organizations to generate income and employment. Based at CBI Head Quarters in the Hague, her current focus is the CBI project to scale-up sustainable tourism in Uganda. In parallel, she is engaged in an export promotion project for dried mango from West-African countries to EU markets.
Jeanette is a trained economist with a specialization in International Economic Theory. She worked as a diplomat for the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and advisor to the Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation. She started her career as renewable energy consultant for the World Bank.
CBI works in over 25 countries and is active in 13 sectors. CBI offers a free database with trends in tourism niche markets in Europe at www.cbi.eu/market-information.
Dr. Abubaker Matovu Waswa
Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering – Makerere University
Dr. Abubaker Matovu Waswa
Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering – Makerere University
He lectures and undertakes research in the field of telecommunications and computer engineering within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He previously served as an Experienced Solution Architect at Ericsson where he was responsible for telecommunications network designs and project management of network deployments. He also held Network Planning Engineer positions within Uganda’s
network operators – MTN Uganda and Uganda Telecom.
He has publications in international conferences/journals with his research interests
being in the engineering of evolving telecommunication systems, currently focusing
on device-to-device (D2D) communication, internet of things (IoT) and smart networking. He is enthusiastic about applying/adapting the various innovations and/or information & communication technologies (ICT) to the dynamic needs and challenges of society
Jean Byamugisha
CEO - Uganda Hotel Owners Association
Jean Byamugisha
CEO - Uganda Hotel Owners Association
Jean Byamugisha is the CEO of the Uganda Hotel Owners Association, the only trade association for the hotels and lodges in Uganda. With over 625members across the country, UHOA is the biggest private sector association in Uganda’s tourism industry. UHOA is proud to be part of the EU Business conference. Through this conference we look forward to providing business opportunities and business financing opportunities for our members.
Daniel Kazibwe
Musician, Song-writer, Producer, Businessman
Daniel Kazibwe
Musician, Song-writer, Producer, Businessman
He is a musician, song writer, producer and an accomplished business man. His music career has been going on for 33 years. He has performed on the same stage with world class artists like Shaggy and others. In his long music career he has produced some hit songs that headlined music concerts and parties in Uganda and abroad. He has mentored almost all the top artists that Uganda has produced throughout the 1990s and 2000s including creating opportunities for music collaborations and exchanges with artists from other countries. He is currently the Chairman of the National Culture Forum- an umbrella body for national associations from all 9 domains of the culture and creative industries in Uganda. He represents the creative industry on the Board of PSFU. He is the Chairman of Board of the Uganda Federation of Movie Industry (UFMI)
Edward Byaruhanga
Manager Transport Planning, Project Formulation Department, Directorate of Network Planning and Engineer - UNRA
Edward Byaruhanga
Manager Transport Planning, Project Formulation Department, Directorate of Network Planning and Engineer - UNRA
Edward possesses an MSc. Engineering from the Institute of Infrastructure Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Delft, The Netherlands and a BSc. Eng. (Civil) (Hons) from Makerere University, Kampala - Uganda coupled with 24 years’ work experience majorly as a consultant in the fields of project management, project planning, design, tender preparation and administration and contract management of various infrastructure projects in transportation, roads and highways, buildings, transmission line and substations and hydropower development. This is coupled with 6years in the public sector with the Uganda National Roads Authority. Edward is a PRINCE2TM Practitioner.
Edward is a married with one daughter.
Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham
Energy, Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and Legal Consultant - GET.invest
Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham
Energy, Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and Legal Consultant - GET.invest
Jeannetta is an energy, public-private partnership (PPP) and legal consultant. She has over nine years of experience in advising private developers, lenders, donors and governments on large-scale infrastructure transactions across various sectors and jurisdictions. Jeannetta has worked as a transaction advisor and assisted projects and developers across East and Central Africa. She also served as the Lead Transactions Advisor for the PPP unit of the Rwandan Government. In her legal career, Jeannetta spent time as a project finance associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP representing banks, sponsors, and institutional investors in cross-border transactions, as well as within the legal departments of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the UN. Jeannetta holds a Juris Doctorate from Boston University and a Bachelor’s Degree from Wake Forest University in Political Science and Japanese.
Dr. Gudula Naiga Basaza
Managing Director - Gudie Leisure Farm
Patrick Kamara
Production Manager - Wizarts Foundation
Patrick Kamara
Production Manager - Wizarts Foundation
Patrick has vast experience in radio and TV production, and he has worked as a radio journalist and producer for more than 15 years. Before joining Wizarts Foundation as a production Manager, Patrick worked with: NTV as a news producer, he handled the prime time news bulletin NTV Tonight. He also worked as a talk show host; Daily Monitor as a reporter; and Voice of Toro as a news editor and station manager
He extensively reported on the conflicts in the region often staying at the battlefront in South Sudan, the DRC and Somalia. He was among the group of selected African journalists that were invited by the US state department to cover the 2008 election
He is an award-winning journalist having scooped the COMESA media Award in 2009 and the Uganda radio Journalist of the year award in 2004. Patrick Has B.A in Mass Communication, a Diploma in radio and TV Production
He is also an Edward Murrow Fellow.
Patrick was recently appointed minister for ICT in Tooro Kingdom.
Katrin Winter
Head of Strategy for East Africa - ESTDEV
Katrin Winter
Head of Strategy for East Africa - ESTDEV
Katrin Winter is the Head of strategy for East Africa at the Estonian Centre for International Development. She initiates and leads interventions with a strong digital development and inclusion focus in education, employment and governance across East and Southern Africa. Her strong academic background in Sino-Africa relations focusing on resource management and governance ties in with her extensive work experience in development from Bangladesh to Zimbabwe. Mrs Winter has previously managed programmes for policy change and development with the British Council, Let’s Do It! Movement and a number of NGOs.
In her current role, she is passionate about identifying and implementing shared objectives for Africa and Europe, and extending the existing narratives on Africa in Estonia. Mrs Winter is driven by cooperation opportunities to create synergies between countries, people and organisations towards a more inclusive global society.
Lubwama Eric Michael
CEO - Kunta Productions
Lubwama Eric Michael
CEO - Kunta Productions
Dr. Aminah Zawedde
Permanent Secretary - Ministry of ICT and National Guidance
Dr. Aminah Zawedde
Permanent Secretary - Ministry of ICT and National Guidance
Dr. Aminah Zawedde the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance. She is an experienced IT professional passionate about embracing digital transformation to improve business models, service delivery and transform people’s lives. She provides strategic and technical guidance on how various sectors can leverage innovation and digital solutions to solve their problems while creating employment opportunities for the youths. To this end, she has played a big role in strengthening the linkages between government, the private sector, academia and development partners. Dr. Zawedde is a Rotarian and also serves on the boards of DFCU Limited, Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) and Mustard Seed Junior School.