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Norbert Mao at a glance
Posted Sunday, February 21 2010 at 13:00
In Summary
He was instrumental in trying to bridge the gap between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels and the Ugandan government by lobbying for the passage of a general amnesty law aimed at bringing a peaceful resolution to armed conflict in Northern Uganda.
Kampala
Norbert Mao was born on March 12, 1967 to an Acholi father and a Munyankole mother.
He attended Mwiri Primary School, before joining Namilyango College, a prestigious all boys boarding high school in Mukono District, from 1982 until 1988. He then attended Makerere University between 1988 until 1991, graduating with a law degree.
Mr Mao served as the president of the Makerere University Students Guild between 1990 and 1991. He went on to obtain the Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre in 1992.
In 2003, Mr Mao was admitted to Yale University, under that university’s International Fellows Programme, where he spent one year at the New Haven, Connecticut campus.
Work practice
From 1992 until 1994, he worked as an associate attorney in the offices of Kabugo and Co. Advocates, a Kampala-based law firm. Between 1994 and 1996, he worked as Legal Counsel of the Legal Aid Project of the Uganda Law Society, in their Gulu office.
In 1996 he was elected to the Ugandan Parliament, representing Gulu Municipality. While in Parliament, he served on the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee and on the Public Accounts Committee. He did defend his seat after the the term of 7th Parliament ended in 2006, choosing instead to run for chairman of Gulu District, a position he holds until today.
Current roles
Mao is chairman of the East African chapter of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and member of its Secretariat. Also, he helped found the Great Lakes Parliamentary Forum on Peace (AMANI).
He was instrumental in trying to bridge the gap between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels and the Ugandan government by lobbying for the passage of a general amnesty law aimed at bringing a peaceful resolution to armed conflict in Northern Uganda.
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