Ruhakana Rugunda

The Right Honourable Ruhakana Rugunda
Rugunda at the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2015
Prime Minister of Uganda
In office 18 September 2014 – 21 June 2021
President	Yoweri Museveni
Deputy	Moses Ali Kirunda Kivejinja
Preceded by	Amama Mbabazi
Succeeded by	Robinah Nabbanja
Personal details
Born	(1947-11-07) 7 November 1947 (age 76) Kabale, Uganda
Political party	National Resistance Movement
Spouse	Jocelyn Rugunda
Children	4
Alma mater	Makerere University University of Zambia University of California, Berkeley

Ruhakana Rugunda (born 7 November 1947) is a Ugandan physician and politician who was Prime Minister of Uganda from 2014 to 2021. He held a long series of cabinet posts under President Yoweri Museveni beginning in 1986. He served as Uganda's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1996, and Minister of Internal Affairs from 2003 to 2009. Subsequently, he was Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2009 to 2011 and Minister of Health from 2013 to 2014.^[1]

He was appointed as Prime Minister on 18 September 2014 to 21 June 2021. He replaced Amama Mbabazi, who was dropped from the Cabinet.^[2]

Harvard University published a case study profiling Rugunda's role in peace talks with the Lord's Resistance Army, called "Giving Peace a Chance: The 2006-2008 Negotiations to End the Conflict in Northern Uganda".