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Family

Professor Yoweri Zirabamuzaale Kyesimira (born 19 May 1935), to Samwiri and Rhoda Wandira in Iganga Iganga in the Eastern region of Uganda. He married Estella Nyakadogi Gafabusa (daughter of Omukama Sir Tito Winyi) in 1968 in Hoima, western Uganda with whom they had 8 children, Juliet, Olivia, Joshua, Joel, Justin, Esther, Jeremy and Joanita.

Education

Professor Kyesimira studied at Iganga Primary School after which he joined Iganga Junior Secondary School in 1950. He was then admitted to Busoga College Mwiri in 1953 thereafter joining Makerere University College in 1956 where he obtained a Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Economics in 1961. He joined Shell Co. in Nairobi, Kenya briefly and was later transferred to Kampala in May 1961. In June of the same year he resigned and travelled to U.S.A for further studies at Stanford University where he obtained a Master’s degree and returned to Uganda in mid 1962.

He later joined the East African Institute of Social Research as a Junior Research Fellow at Makerere University College between 1963 and 1965. He was a Lecturer, Senior lecturer and Reader in the Economics Department at Makerere University between 1965 and 1971 and later a Professor and Head of Department of Economics at Makerere University from 1971 to 1975.

Employment

He worked as an Agricultural Officer (Economist) for the Uganda Government from 1962 to 1963 before joining academia after which he was appointed Chairman, Uganda Advisory Board of Trade between 1975 and 1976. He fled to exile in Nairobi, Kenya during this time after his life was threatened by the regime of Idi Amin where he joined the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as a Programme Officer based in Nairobi from 1976 to 1979. He held a number of part time appointments which included;

·      Chairman, Uganda Advisory Board of Trade (1974 - 1975)

·      Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Makerere University (1969 - 1975)

·      Chairman, Grindlays Bank (U) Limited (1970 - 1976)

·      Trustee, Uganda National Parks (1974 - 1976)

·      Member, National Research Council (Uganda) and Chairman of the Social Science Research Committee of the Council (1970 - 1976)

·      Director, Uganda Commercial Bank (1965 - 1967)

·      Director, Agricultural Enterprises Limited (1964 - 1968)

·      Councillor, Kampala City Council (1966 - 1967)

He also held a number of short term and honorary appointments;

·      Member, United Nations Committee for Development Planning (1975 to 1976)

·      Consultant, Review Mission for the African Institute of Development and Economic Planning (UNDP assisted project) (1975)

·      Consultant, Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Economic Commission for Africa (1974)

·      External examiner in Economics University of Khartoum (1974 & 1975)

·      External examiner in Economics University of Dar-es-salaam (1974)

·      External examiner in Economics University of Nairobi (1975, 1978 & 1979)

·      Council member, Society for International Development (1972 - 1975)

·      Co- chairman of the Uganda Economic Study team on Economic Adjustment and long term development in Uganda sponsored by (IDRC) (May to July 1986)

Political career

Professor Kyesimira returned to Uganda in 1979 and served in several positions in government as Minister of Industry (1979), Minister of Transport (1980) and Minister of Planning & Economic Development (1985 to 1989).

He was also a politician and member of the fourth parliament (1980 to 1985) and fifth parliament (1986 to 1996) representing the Democratic Party (DP) in Iganga Central from 1980 to 1989 and was famously arrested in February 1981 and held in Upper prison, Luzira on high treason charges. He was released in 1982 after serving a year in prison on condition that he crossed over to the ruling Uganda Peoples's Congress (UPC) party which he refused to do. For this he was arrested again and held for 3 years in Luzira until 1985 when the new government of Tito Okello Lutwa mass released prisoners at city square in Kampala.

He was immediately appointed to serve as Minister of Planning as well as Minister of Regional Co-operation until a change of government in 1986 when the NRA took power. He was asked to continue serving as Minister of Planning & Economic Development until 1989 when he quit active politics.

International Meetings & Conferences

·      Chairman of the Conference of African Ministers responsible for Human Resources Planning, Development and Utilisation, Khartoum – 12-13th March 1988

·      Leader of the Uganda Delegation to the 9th, 11th and 12th Sessions of the Governing Council of IFAD, Rome – Jan 1986, Jan 1988, and Jan 1989

·      Head of Uganda Delegation to meeting of African Ministers of Industry, Addis Ababa – Oct 1979

·      Member of a group of experts on Disarmament and Economic and Social Council, Geneva – April and July 1972

·      Consultant to the 7th inter-regional seminar on Development Planning organised by CDPPP, Addis Ababa – Dec 1971

·      Member of group of experts on special measures in favour of the least developed among developing countries, UNCTAD, Geneva – April 1971

·      Consultant to the 4th Inter-regional seminar on development planning organised by CDPPP, Accra – Dec 1968

·      Meeting of group of experts on payments arrangements among developing countries, UNCTAD, New York – June 1966

·      First Conference of African Planners, Dakar – Nov 1964

·      International Association of Agricultural Economists, Lyon –Aug 1964

Books

Professor Kyesimira is the author of the following publications;

·      Agricultural Production and Trade Potential in East Africa, East African Institute of Social Research (October 1963)

·      Trade and Marketing of Major Agricultural Products in East Africa,  East African Institute of Social Research (November 1963)

·      Paul Clark with Yoweri Kyesimira: Compensatory Financing for Export Fluctuations  East African Institute for Social Research (March 1964)

·      The Agricultural Exports of East Africa, East African Institute of Social Research (April 1964)

·      Agricultural Exports of East Africa, East African Institute of Social Research, Conference (December 1964)

·      The Production and Marketing of Maize in Kenya,  East African Institute of Social Research (January 1965)

·      Kenya’s Maize Muddle-A Rejoinder,   East Africa Journal (June 1966)

·      The problems and scope of Economic Cooperation in East Africa,  Monthly journal of the Institute of Asian Economic Affairs (December 1966)

·      Treason in Uganda – The Judgement of Prof. Yoweri Kyesimira’s Case (March, 1985)

See also

Cabinet of Uganda 1979, 1985, 1986 to 1989

Parliament of Uganda 1980 to 1989

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