Deputy Chef de Cabinet, Sustainable Development
Mr. John Leonard Mugerwa joined the Foreign Service of Uganda in 1992 and worked in the Department of Africa and Middle East, dealing with bilateral and regional integration matters. From 1997 until 1999 he was seconded as Private Secretary/Protocol to the President of Uganda. Between 1999 and 2005, he served in Uganda’s High Commission in Nairobi as Second Secretary, later First Secretary and delegate to UNEP and UN Habitat. He was later seconded to the Ministry of East African Community Affairs as Assistant Commissioner, and played a key role in the negotiations on the East African Customs Union and Common Market Protocols. He served as Executive Secretary and Head of the National Secretariat for the first Tripartite EAC-COMESA-SADC Summit held in Kampala in 2008. In 2009, he was posted to the Permanent Mission to the United Nations as Counsellor, serving as Alternate Political Coordinator during Uganda’s two-year tenure in the Security Council, and later as a representative to the Second Committee (Economic and Financial). He was promoted to the rank of Minister Counsellor in 2015. Prior to joining the diplomatic service, he was Assistant Editor for the East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights at Makerere University, and visiting Associate Researcher at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
He holds a BA Honours degree (Makerere University), Masters in Diplomatic Studies – Diplomacy and International Relations (University of Leicester) and Masters in Business Administration (United States International University). Mr. Mugerwa is a national of Uganda.
