Ambassador Juma V. Mwapachu,
Independent Non-Executive Director

Ambassador Mwapachu is an independent Non-Executive Director of the ABG Group. He is a law graduate who began his career in the public sector in Tanzania as a State Attorney and subsequently served in the Foreign Office. Following a period as a management consultant with Coopers & Lybrand Associates, now PricewaterhouseCoopers, he worked as Managing Director of one of the largest private sector Tanzanian business groups before establishing his own consulting group. Throughout his career he has been a leading advocate of the creation of a strong and dynamic private sector in Tanzania. He was the founding Secretary General of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture in 1988 and served as Chairman of the Confederation of Tanzania industries between 1996 and 2000 as well as Chairman of the East African Business Council from 1999 to 2000. During this period, he also served on a number of Presidential Commissions that consolidated Tanzania's market economy and which ushered in a multi-party political system. He was a Member of the Team that crafted Tanzania's Development Vision 2025. Later, he was appointed as Tanzania's Ambassador to France, a post he held from 2002 to 2006. Following his return to Tanzania, he has played a leading role in the regional integration of East Africa through his immediate past post as Secretary General of the East African Community, a position he held for five years until the end of April this year.