James Msekela

Dr James Msekela
Tanzanian Ambassador to Italy
Assumed office
5 January 2012
Appointed by Jakaya Kikwete
Member of Parliament
for Tabora North
In office
2000–2010
Succeeded by Shaffin Sumar
Personal details
Born (1959-09-03) 3 September 1959
Tanganyika
Nationality Tanzanian
Political party CCM
Alma mater Dar Technical College (Dip)
SPbSTU (MSc)
Dar es Salaam (PhD)
Royal Inst. of Tech. (Tekn. Lic)

James Alex Msekela (born 3 September 1959) is a Tanzanian politician and diplomat.[1] He is currently Tanzania's ambassador to Italy, having been appointed by President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete and sworn in on 5 January 2012.[2]

Early life and education

In his early life Msekela grew up in Tabora District and later on in Nzega District, Ijanija ward, where he finished his primary education in 1973 at the Tazengwa Primary School. From 1974 he attended Tanga Technical Secondary School, graduating in 1977, and went on to Dar es Salaam Technical College where he received his Full Technician Certificate in 1981. He joined the CCM as a youth member in 1980, and a full member in 1982. After graduation he briefly worked with The Tanzania Cashewnut Authority before he went to Mafinga to do his compulsory one-year National Service. In mid 1982 he got employed at the University of Dar es Salaam as a technician.[3] In mid 1983 he received a scholarship to Leningard State Technical University in the U.S.S.R. where in 1990 he received his Master's of science in Engineering.[3] Upon his return from Russia, he was hired as a lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam. Three years later he was admitted to the Electrical Machines Department of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden where he received his Licentiate Teknik degree in 1995. This was concurrent with his work on his doctorate at the University of Dar es Salaam, where he received his Ph.D. in Engineering in 1997.[3] He continued teaching at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Dar es Salaam until October 2000 when he got elected Member of Parliament, representing Tabora Constituency under the CCM ticket, the position he retained for five more years after the National Election of year 2005. [3]

Politics

A long time CCM party member, Msekela entered politics in 2000 when he got elected Member of Parliament for Tabora North Constituency, alongside taking duties for the party.[3] He was re-elected to the Tanzanian Parliament in 2005 from the Tabora North Tabora (Tabora Kaskazini) of Tabora Urban District. In 2006, in addition to his MP duties, he was appointed by the President of the United Republic of Tanzania as Regional Commissioner for Mwanza Region.[4][5] which job he held until February 2009 when he was appointed Regional Commissioner for the Dodoma Region where he served until October 2011.[6][7] Msekela did not run again for parliament in the 2010 elections. From Dodoma he went on to become the Ambassador to Italy for four years starting from early 2012.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Member of Parliament CV". Parliament of Tanzania. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  2. 1 2 "The Team in Rome". Embassy of Tanzania in Rome, Italy. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Member of Parliament CV: Honourable Dr. James Alex Msekela". Parliament of Tanzania.
  4. ↑ "Historia ya Sekretarieti ya Mkoa (History of the Regional Secretariat)" (in Swahili). Mwanza Region Secretariat.
  5. ↑ Msekela, James Alex (29 December 2007). "Brief Remarks by Hon. Eng. Dr. James Alex Msekela (MP) Regional Commissioner for Mwanza Region to Mr. Ahmed al Marar – 11H – Chairman and Managing Director of the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank on 29th December 2007" (PDF).
  6. ↑ Jube, Faraja (24 December 2009). "Tanzania: Days of 'Cowboy' Contractors Numbered". The Citizen. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Archived from the original on 28 December 2009.
  7. ↑ Msangya, Daniel (1 September 2010). "Dodoma new RC's office to cost Sh15b". The Citizen. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Archived from the original on 3 September 2010.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/14/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.