Dr Ham-Mukasa Mulira was appointed by the President of Uganda as the pioneer Minister of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Government of the Republic of Uganda in June, 2006 due to his technical background and experience.
On completion of his assignment in February, 2009, Dr. Mulira was appointed as the Senior Presidential Advisor on ICT. Prior to his appointment as Minister of ICT, Dr. Mulira was the Executive Director of Uganda Computer Services (UCS), now National IT Authority – Uganda (NITA-U), General Manager, Management Information Services (MIS), Uganda Commercial Bank Limited (now Stanbic Bank (U)). He served as a Teaching and Research Assistant at the London School of Economics (LSE) and as a Software Engineer, City Systems (UK) Ltd, London, UK. He was also lecturer at the Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics together with the Institute of Computer Science, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Dr. Ham Mulira has undertaken numerous consultancies in the field of IT for the World Bank, UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF and Government. He has followed and been part of the ICT evolution in Uganda and the region, and now runs an IT consultancy firm called eConsult (U) Ltd. He was awarded as a finalist for two consecutive years; 2007 and 2008 as one of the Top Three Ministers in Africa with an ICT Portfolio, ForgeAhead Africa/Department of Communications, Government of the Republic of South Africa.
He holds a PhD (Statistical Computing), University of London, (Imperial College/the London School of Economics), UK; an MSc (Statistics & Operations Research/Computing), Loughborough University of Technology, UK and a BSc (Statistics) from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
