PROFILE: 15 years in the energy ministry; two MScs- in Advanced Chemical Engineering and in Mechanical Engineering, Uganda couldn’t have gotten a better PS for the energy ministry

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Ms. Irene P. Batebe, the new Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (MEMD) is a former Commissioner/Midstream in the Directorate of Petroleum in the Ministry of Energy and Minerals. The ministry has a mandate to establish, promote the development, strategically manage and safeguard the rational and sustainable exploitation and utilization of energy and mineral res