Nationality Ugandan Years active 2000 — present Alma mater Loughborough University | Citizenship Uganda Home town Mbale Residence Kampala, Uganda | |
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Other names Josephine Wapakabulo Thomas Occupation Electrical Engineer & Business Executive Other name Josephine Wapakabulo Thomas Titles Chief Executive, Uganda National Oil Company | ||
Josephine Kasalamwa Wapakabulo, also Josephine Wapakabulo Thomas, is a Ugandan electrical engineer and business executive. She is the Chief Executive Officer of Uganda National Oil Company. She was appointed in June 2016, being the first person to serve in that position.
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Background and education
She was born in 1976. She is the daughter of Angelina Wapakhabulo and the late James Wapakhabulo. She studied at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, as an electrical and electronics engineer, obtaining a BEng, an MSc and a PhD in the field. She also holds an MBA from the INSEAD Business School in France.
Career
From 2000 until 2002 Wapakabulo worked as a Leadership Trainee & Community Organizer in Coventry, United Kingdom. From 2006 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 Chief of Quality and Continuous Improvement at Rolls-Royce in the Berlin Area, in Germany.
Between 2014 and 2015, she sved as the Chief Operating Officer at The Walk Free Foundation in Perth, Australia. In 2015, she returned to her native Uganda and worked as a Business Consultant in Kampala, until 2016. She was named to her present appointment by the Board of UNOC, in June 2016.
She took up her appointment at Uganda National Oil Company on 1 August 2016, with 15 years' experience in effective leadership, team building, project management and innovation in multinational companies, across multiple continents.