Rose Mwebaza is a Ugandan lawyer who serves as the United Nations Environment Program's regional office for Africa since 2023.[1] She is the Director of the Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN), the implementation arm of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Technology Mechanism, which is hosted and managed by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the UN Environment Programme. Mwebaza also serves as the Advisory Board Secretary UNFCCC.
Mwebaza was a lecturer at Makerere University, where she also served as the Head of Department for Commercial Law, and Deputy Dean of the Law School, Makerere University between 1997 and 2008.[5] Mwebaza also served as a Senior Legal Advisor on Environmental Security for the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) based in Nairobi, Kenya. She then served as the Regional Policy Adviser for Eastern and Southern Africa on Climate Change in the Environment and Energy Group, at the United Nations Development Programme Bureau for Development Policy in Johannesburg, South Africa. She served as Programme Manager for UNDP’s regional office for AfricainAddis Ababa, Ethiopia covering 47 countries.[6] She was also designated as Advisor to the Chairperson of the African Union, where she provided policy advice on development issues related to the African Union Development Agenda and UNDP’s Development Support to Africa.[7] Dr. Mwebaza joined the banking sector and served as Chief Natural Resources Officer at the African Development BankinAbidjan, Ivory Coast.[8] She is the Director of the Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN), the implementation arm of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Technology Mechanism, which is hosted and managed by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the UN Environment Programme replacing Jukka Uosukainen of Finland who served as CTCN Director from 2014-2019.[9] In 2021, she was named amongst the 100 most influential women in Africa.[10]
