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Nationality
  
Ugandan

Name
  
Amelia Kyambadde

Titles
  
Trade

Years active
  
1979 — present

Known for
  
Citizenship
  
Residence
  
Kampala, Uganda

Ethnicity
  
Muganda


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Born
  
30 June 1955 (age 69) (
1955-06-30
)
Uganda

Occupation
  
Administrator, Businesswoman & Politician

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Amelia Anne Kyambadde is a Ugandan politician. She is the current Cabinet Minister of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives in the Ugandan Cabinet. She was appointed to that position on 6 June 2016. She has previously served as Cabinet Minister of Trade and Industry between 27 May 2011 and 6 June 2016. She replaced Kahinda Otafiire, who was appointed Minister for Justice. Amelia Kyambadde is also the elected Member of Parliament (MP) for "Mawokota County North" in Mpigi District.

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Background

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She was born in June 1955, to the late Serwano K. Kulubya and Mary Kafureka, in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom. She relocated to Uganda, in 1959, at the age of four years.

Education

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She attended Gayaza Primary School in Wakiso District for her elementary education, Gulu Sacred Heart High School in Gulu District for her secondary education and Aga Khan School of Secretarial Studies in Nairobi, Kenya, for her post-secondary education. Amelia Kyambadde holds the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), from Makerere University, Uganda's oldest institution of tertiary education, founded in 1922. She also holds the degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA), from the American InterContinental University in London, United Kingdom.

Work experience

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She started working in the Ugandan Civil Service in 1979, at the age of twenty-four (24). She rose to the rank of Principal Private Secretary (PPS) of the President of Uganda. In 2010, she voluntarily resigned as the President's PPS, to contest the parliamentary seat of "Mawokota County North", Mpigi District. During the Uganda national elections of 2011, she won her parliamentary contest and is now the incumbent MP for that constituency. On 27 March 2011, she was appointed Minister for Trade & Industry. On 6 June 2016, she was named Cabinet Minister of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, in the cabinet list released that day.

Personal details

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Amelia Anne Kyambadde is married to Wilson Kyambadde since 1976. Together, they are the parents of five children. She is the Patron of Twezimbe Development Foundation (TDF), a community-based, non-governmental, organization formed to improve the living conditions of the people of her parliamentary constituency. She founded the Twezimbe NGO.

References

Amelia Kyambadde Wikipedia


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