BIOGRAPHY OF AGGREY AWORI
Hon. Aggrey Siryoyi Awori’s Profile
The Minister for Information and Communications Technology is Hon. Aggrey Awori.
Hon. Aggrey Awori is a Ugandan politician and a member of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party. Awori was previously an outspoken opposition member of parliament for the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC). He is the second Minister for the Ministry.Aggrey was born in Busia district, near the Ugandan border to Kenya.
He studied at Nabumali High School and King’s College Budo from 1959 to 1961. From 1961 to 1965, he studied at Harvard University on a scholarship. The first year he took nuclear physics, but then switched over to political economics, and obtained a 1st class Honours Degree.
In 1967, Awori was appointed the first local director of Uganda Television (UTV). He taught at the University of Nairobi until 1976 and then traveled around Africa visiting Tanzania, Liberia and Senegal and returning to Nairobi in 1979. He became ambassador to the Netherlands, Belgium and Permanent Representative to European Community up to 1987. Previously he had been Minister Plenipotentiary and Extra-Ordinary in Washington D.C – from 1981- 1985. As a top athlete, he represented Uganda at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games and 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games in 110 meters hurdles, 100 and 200 meters sprints.
He is married to Thelma Awori, former United Nations Development Programme director for Africa, with six grown up children and grandchildren.
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