Category: Profile

Elected on Tuesday 01 February in Dodoma, the capital of Tanzania, she received 376 votes from the MPs who attended the election. She becomes the second woman in Tanzania to hold this position after Anne Makinda, who held it from 2010 to 2015. Tulia Ackson Mwansasu, who defeated eight of her fellow candidates, was deputy […]

Prior to her appointment, she was, since September 2018, permanent secretary of Rwanda’s Ministry of Infrastructure, where she started in 2015 as technical advisor to the minister of infrastructure. As permanent secretary of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Patricia Uwase oversaw the preparation and execution of the budget for Rwanda’s infrastructure sector – about a third […]

Headquartered in South Africa, KFC Africa, regional operating unit of US-based fast-food chain KFC, has appointed Nolo Thobejane as head of rest of sub-Saharan Africa (RoSSA), which is made up of 22 growth markets. This appointment became effective on 1 January 2022. KFC, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., is a global chicken restaurant brand […]

The Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) of the Global Reporting Initiative has selected 20 members to participate in the global working group that will develop the content of a sector standard for the mining sector that addresses the impacts of organizations in this sector. The Global Reporting Initiative is an independent international standard-setting body for […]

Rosette Chantal Rugamba, a 24-year veteran of the African ecotourism and protected areas sector, and Dr Paula Kahumbu, one of Africa’s best-known wildlife conservationists joined on 1 January 2022. Rosette Chantal Ruganba, a 24-year veteran of the African ecotourism and protected areas sector, and Dr Paula Kahumbu, one of Africa’s best-known wildlife conservationists joined the […]

Standard Chartered (the Group) announced on January 13 the appointment of Dr. Sandie Okoro as Group General Counsel. She will be reporting to Group CEO, Bill Winters and be based in the UK. Sandie Okoro will join the Standard Chartered Group in early-April 2022. She replaces David Fein, who retired as Group General Counsel at […]

Kenyan national Paula Kahumbu is one of five new members of the Board of Trustees of the National Geographic Society, the renowned 134-year-old organisation. The five new members, whose appointments were announced on 12 January, took up their positions on 1 January. The National Geographic Society is a global nonprofit organisation specialising in geography, archaeology, […]

She is responsible for overseeing BGFI Bank’s subsidiaries in Cameroon, the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Equatorial Guinea and Central Africa. The BGFI Bank Group describes itself as the leading financial group in the CEMAC zone and the leader in its domestic market, Gabon, as well as in the Republic […]

The Council of the University of Johannesburg (UJ)  announced on January 10 the appointment of former United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, as its new Chancellor. Her five-year term of office will run from 1 October 2022 until 30 September 2027. She will succeed Professor Njabulo Ndebele, whose […]

South African geneticist, of Cameroonian origin, Ambroise Wonkam, M.D., Ph.D., D.Med.Sc., has been selected as Johns Hopkins Medicine’s director of the Department of Genetic Medicine and the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine. He leads the department since January 1, succeeding David Valle, M.D., who will remain on the Johns Hopkins faculty and continue research and […]