Josephine Wapakabulo, also Josephine Wapakabulo Thomas, is an

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and business executive. She served as the founding chief executive officer of

Uganda National Oil Company The Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC), also known as the National Oil Company of Uganda, is a limited liability petroleum company in Uganda owned by the Ugandan government. The 2013 Petroleum (Exploration, Development and Production) Act of Uga ...

(UNOC). She was appointed in June 2016, being the first person to serve in that position. She resigned as UNOC CEO, with effect from 13 August 2019, "to focus on her family and new opportunities".

Background and education

She was born in 1976, in Arusha, Tanzania. She is the daughter of

Angelina Wapakhabulo Angelina Chogo Wapakhabulo (widely known as Mama Angelina in Uganda) (born March 24, 1949) was Uganda's High Commissioner to Kenya. She is a founding member and co-chair of the United Way Board. Wapakhabulo is a community activist and a social ...

and the late

James Wapakhabulo James Francis Wambogo Wapakhabulo (23 March 1945 – 27 March 2004) was a Ugandan politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uganda from 2001 to 2004. Background Wapakhabulo began his career studying law at the University of Ea ...

. She studied at

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in the United Kingdom, as an electronic and electrical engineer, obtaining a

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, an

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and a

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at the same university. She also holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD Business School in France.

Career

From 2000 until 2002, Wapakabulo worked as a Leadership Trainee & Community Organizer in Coventry, United Kingdom. From 2002 until 2006, she worked as a research associate at LSC Group Consulting in Lichfield, United Kingdom. In 2006, she joined Rolls-Royce in Derby, United Kingdom, as a Business Process & Information Engineering Specialist, serving in that capacity until 2011. From 2011 until 2014, she served as a Quality Executive and Engineering Chief of Quality and Continuous Improvement at Rolls-Royce in the Berlin Area, in Germany. Between 2014 and 2015, she served as the Chief Operating Officer at The Walk Free Foundation in Perth,

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. In 2015, she returned to her native Uganda and worked as a Business Consultant in Kampala, until 2016. She was named CEO by the Board of UNOC, in June 2016. She took up her appointment at Uganda National Oil Company on 1 August 2016, with over 16 years' experience in effective leadership, team building, project management and innovation in multinational companies, across multiple continents. Today, she is founder and managing director of TIG Africa.

References

External links

Uganda National Oil Company Seeks to Recruit Top Executives

UNOC appoints Wapakabulo for CEO
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Background and education

Career

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