Former UNU fellow appointed to Director position in Uganda

Former UNU-FTP fellow and scholarship recipient, Taabu Anthony Munyaho, has been selected for the Director position at the National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRI) in Uganda.

Taabu was a fellow at the United Nations University Fisheries Training Programme in 2004, at which time he focused on stock assessment. He later received a scholarship for his PhD studies through the UNU-FTP at the University of Iceland. He defended his dissertation, entitled Anthropogenic and environmental impacts on the abundance and distribution of commercial fish stocks of Lake Victoria, East Africa at the University of Iceland in 2014.

Congratulations to Taabu, and we at the UNU look forward to watching the great things you will accomplish through your new responsibilities.