Of Ugandan nationality, Mr. Ssegawa has over 27 years of senior-level experience in conducting organization-wide reforms. He is currently Director of Human Resources and joined the African Development Bank in May 2016. In this role, he played a key role in the implementation of the new organizational structures and related change management, human resources development and strategic staffing for the new Service Development and Delivery Model. the bank.
Prior to joining the African Development Bank, Mr. Ssegawa served as Human Resources Director of the Airtel Africa Group in Nairobi – Kenya, from 2012 to 2016, where he demonstrated leadership in the strategic engagement of human resources with business. operating in Africa, through 17 human resources managers based in the countries and their teams. At Airtel Africa, he spearheaded company-wide business restructuring as part of the turnaround strategy and also played a key role in the many recorded mergers and acquisitions as well as in the cultural changes within the company. organisation.
- Ssegawa worked for six years at Coca-Cola until April 2012, as Director of Human Resources, first for Central Africa, East Africa and West Africa in Nairobi in Kenya and then for Johannesburg-based Coca-Cola Office in Southern Africa. In both structures, he led institutional reforms, managed cultural change, piloted talent development initiatives that had a significant impact on employee engagement.
He began his career at Coca-Cola as Director of the Human Resources / Compensation and Benefits Division for East and Central Africa. Prior to joining Coca-Cola, Mr. Ssegawa worked for Unilever for eight years, first as Regional Director of Human Resources in Uganda, then Regional Director of Training and Development in Eastern Africa, and finally Director. human resources for Eastern and Southern Africa. Previously, he also worked for Standard Bank of South Africa as Human Resources Manager for Uganda, and later became Senior Human Resources Manager for Stanbic Africa, a subsidiary of Standard Bank. ‘South Africa.
- Ssegawa holds a Bachelor’s degree in social work and social administration from Makerere University (Uganda) and a Master’s degree in Labor Relations and Strategic Human Resources from the University of Leicester ( UK).
- GODFRED AWA EDDY PENN: ADVISER GENERAL LEGAL BY INTERIM
President Appoints Godfred Awa Eddy Penn Acting General Counsel With Effective Effect of January 23 2018 until further notice.
A native of Cameroon, Mr. Penn is a seasoned lawyer with more than 26 years of leadership and management experience. His extensive experience includes, but is not limited to, providing legal advice to governance and management bodies of international organizations. He has accumulated a wealth of experience in various fields, including international organizations such as the African Development Bank, the World Bank, and private law practice and law education at the university level.
- Penn serves as Acting General Counsel after more than 20 years at the African Development Bank where, until this appointment, he was the Chief Legal Adviser and Advisor to the General Counsel. In this capacity, he has assisted the General Counsel to provide legal advice on major institutional issues such as the African Development Bank’s capital increases, replenishments of African Development Fund resources, interpretations of the African Development Bank and the African Development Fund and other legal issues related to good governance of the African Development Bank Group. Mr. Penn has also advised the African Development Bank Group on a number of innovative financial sustainability issues that enable the African Development Bank, the African Development Fund and the Nigeria Trust Fund to work together to improve to create greater synergy for the economic and social development of the African continent.
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania’s Faculty of Law, Mr. Penn taught law at the University of Yaoundé while practicing law as local counsel for ExxonMobil on the Chad-Cameroon pipeline and on other projects in Cameroon. Subsequently, he headed the Office of Democracy and Governance Project at USAID in Yaounde. He then became Legal Counsel at the World Bank in Washington, DC, where he spent two years working on project financing in Southeast Asia, including China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Laos.
In 1997, Mr. Penn joined the African Development Bank, where he held various positions, including legal counsel in charge of the financial side of projects in the Legal Services Department, advising the Vice President of Institutional Services, and currently as chief legal adviser and advisor to the General Counsel. Mr. Penn is fluently bilingual and handles both English and French.
Mr. Penn earned his doctorate in law from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, after a graduate degree from the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Yaoundé in Cameroon up to the “Diploma” level. graduate studies “. He is a member of the New York State Bar, the American Bar Association and the Cameroon Bar Association.
