Dr William Mulhairwe, speaking at Water Investment World Africa 2011

Dr William Mulhairwe,
Managing Director
National Water & Sewerage Corparation Uganda (NWSC)

Dr. William T. Muhairwe is a Management Specialist trained in Economic and Business Management and has been managing public companies for more than the last 15 years in Uganda and abroad. Since 1998 to date, he has been the Managing Director of National Water and Sewerage Corporation, a State Corporation that was almost collapsing due to mismanagement. Out of his initiatives, Dr Muhairwe has implemented innovative change management programmes that have successfully turned round NWSC from a loss making organization to a profit making government parastatal which is
now a benchmark for best practice both nationally and internationally among water utility organizations.

Formerly, Dr Muhairwe worked for the Uganda Investment Authority as its Deputy and eventually Ag Executive Director for 3 years and was responsible for attracting inward private investments in Uganda. He was also, at one time, the MD of the East African Steel Corporation, a Joint Venture Company between the government of Uganda and a private company (The Madhvani Group). Dr. Muhairwe has key
competences in Strategic Planning, Policy formulation, private sector development, restructuring of ailing state companies and managing them while preparing them for private sector investment and participation. Dr. Muhairwe has spearheaded the formation of an External Services function in NWSC, which has, hitherto, become a strong platform for sharing best utility management practices in the sub-Saharan African region and beyond. He has been retained to provide professional services to the World Bank in several assignments on top of his other External Services assignments in performance improvement strategy development in Kenya,
Tanzania, Zambia, India and Pakistan

Appearing:

Day One Wednesday, 26th of October 2011

9.40am

Panel discussion: Adopting an achievable water standard for Africa

How to make sustainability a greater focus for the future of capacity management
How to identify new water sources and technologies to increase capacity
Strategies in managing current water resources to optimize existing supply

Dr William Mulhairwe,

Managing Director,
National Water & Sewerage Corparation Uganda (NWSC)

Mr. Tinayeshe Mutazu,

Director of Water Resource Planning and developmen,
Ministry of Water Resource Planning and Development

Prof. Hamanth Kasan,

General Manager: Scientific Services,
Rand Water Services (pty) Ltd