MUSEVENI REAPPOINTS DR CHRIS MUKIIZA AS UBOS DIRECTO
President Yoweri Museveni has reappointed Dr Chris Mukiiza to serve as Executive Director of Uganda Bureau of Statistics.
Mukiza previously (in 1992) worked as a statistician at the Ugandan Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development.
Mukiza holds a doctor of philosophy in statistics awarded in 2008 by the University of Southampton in United Kingdom.
His PhD thesis was titled “Essays On Growth And Absolute Poverty: Evidence From Uganda”.
MukizUbosa joined UBOS in March 2000. From 2009 until 2019, he served as the Director of Macroeconomic statistics at UBOS. In that position, he was part of a seventeen-person senior management team at the government agency.
He beat three other applicants for the position of executive director of UBOS, including Imelda Madgalene Atai, who has been the Acting Executive Director from July 2018 until March 2019.
Dr. Chris Mukiza replaced Ben Paul Mungyereza, who resigned in early 2018.
In his role as executive director, he also becomes a member of the UBOS board of directors.
Mukiza previously (in 1992) worked as a statistician at the Ministry of Finance. He then worked at the Uganda Revenue Authority from 1997 until 2000.
He has plans to make the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, an excellent statistics production centre in the region and on the continent, according to remarks that he made upon his appointment as executive director.
Mukiiza is currently supervising the mapping exercise to ensure Uganda conducts her first digital population census on may 10th.
The Uganda Bureau of Statistics is an agency of the Ugandan government. Formed by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics Act, 1998, the agency is mandated to “coordinate, monitor and supervise Uganda’s National Statistical System.
