Waako received the award from Museveni during celebrations to mark the 2023 International Labour Day held in Namutumba district. While handing over the medal, Museveni reiterated his call on the need for affordable tariffs to allow for industrialization and competitiveness of Uganda’s manufactured products on the regional and international markets.
Eng. Ziria Tibalwa Waako is the chief executive officer of the Electricity Regulatory Authority. Eng. Waako has vast knowledge and experience in Uganda’s electricity supply industry, which she has served for nearly 30 years, having started her career working with the Uganda Electricity Board (UEB).
Eng. Waako is among the first group of Ugandans to operate the computerized Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system for the remote operation and monitoring of the Electrical Power System Network.
During the unbundling of UEB, Waako was transferred to the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited, where she served as the Operational Planning Engineer, Senior Planning Engineer and Principal Planning Engineer.
Before she was appointed chief executive officer of the Electricity Regulatory Authority, Waako served as the director, Technical Regulation at ERA. In this role, Waako was responsible for providing leadership to the Technical Regulation Department, setting performance targets for licensees, monitoring and enforcing licensees’ technical and environmental compliance with the applicable laws, and terms and conditions.
As a Government Team Leader, she has led various projects to successful completion, including the Global Energy Transfer for Feed-in Tariff (GET FiT) projects from 2012 to 2021, which added 150 MW of electricity to the grid, thereby mitigating load-shedding.
Waako holds Master of Science and Bachelor of Science Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Makerere University and a Master of Business Administration in Leadership degree from Walden University, USA.
She is a Registered Engineer with the Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers (UIPE) and the National Engineers Registration Board and a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) of New York, United States of America.
She is the first female chief executive officer of the Electricity Regulatory Authority.
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