Dr Chris Mukiza has been reappointed as the Executive Director of the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS).
The appointment keeps him as the country’s chief statistician for the next five years.
“This reappointment is a testament of faith, confidence and support that H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the President of the Republic of Uganda, Hon Matia Kasaija, the Minister of Finance and Economic Development and the Board of the Uganda Bureau of Statistics have bestowed upon you,” said the UBOS Board in a congratulatory message.
“This further showcases your exemplary, visionary and transformational leadership that has produced remarkable accomplishments for the Bureau during the past 5-year term.”
“We are confident that the next 5 years of your leadership will place the Bureau to the standard of a World Class National Statistics Office. We pledge to give you maximum support to fulfil the mandate, vision and mission of UBOS.”
The Uganda Bureau of Statistics is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, dissemination and storage of nationally important data.
Currently, the Bureau is preparing for the upcoming National Population and Housing Census 2024 scheduled to kick in May.
Mukiza 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 out three other applicants for the position of executive director of UBOS, including Imelda Magdalene Atai, who was 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.