Tanzania: Tanga Cement has appointed Patrick Rutabanzibwa as its chair. It follows the resignation of Lawrence Masha in mid-December 2022.
Rutabanzibwa previously worked as the company’s deputy chair. He is also the country chair of PanAfrican Energy and is a director of the National Housing Corporation. Other notable past appointments include work as a permanent secretary in government ministries, including the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development, the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Water and Irrigation and the Ministry of Energy and Minerals. In the 1980s and 1990s he was a research officer at the state-owned Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation and held positions at the Ministry of Water, Energy and Minerals. He holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Loughborough University in the UK.