Chief Executive Officer
Graduate
Uganda National Oil Company
Uganda
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. 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 Executive MBA from the INSEAD Business School in France. From 2000 until 2002 Wapakabulo worked as a Leadership Trainee & Community Organizer in Coventry, United Kingdom. From 2002 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
Research focus on Electrical engineer, Business Executive