DUBAI (UAE)— President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has been awarded the Asian Business Leadership Forum (ABLF) Award for exhibiting exemplary principle centred sustainable leadership.
ABLF, in a statement, announced that Museveni will receive his award during a virtual event to be held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on March 1.
Finance minister Matia Kasaija and Government Chief Whip Thomas Tayebwa will receive the award on behalf of Museveni from the ABLF royal patron, Sheikh Nahayan Mubarak Al Nahayan, the UAE cabinet member and minister of tolerance and co-existence.
“On behalf of the ABLF royal patron, Sheikh Nahayan Mubarak NV Al Nahayan, cabinet member and minister of tolerance and co-existence, United Arab Emirates (UAE), our board of governors and partners, the UAE Ministry of Economy, and Dubai Cares, it is our honour to welcome your presence to the 16th edition of the ABLF Awards hosted at the Dubai Expo 2020,” the ABLF statement said.
Kasaija and Tayebwa received Very Important Persons (VIP) invitations from the ABLF and they will attend in person as VIPs on behalf of the President, upon confirming their travel to UAE for the event.
The ABLF Awards, a premier, integrity-led recognition platform founded in 2007, focuses on acknowledging the intellectual capital of inspirational Asian leaders across the globe. The ABLF Awards Grand ceremony celebrates towering examples of principle-centred sustainable leadership.
The gala will be held in a hybrid format with an in-person audience of around 180 dignitaries and an equally strong online audience of over 30,000 people around Asia, who will tune into the event through the cutting-edge virtual venue in ABLF city, where the award gala will be live-streamed.
ABLF is Asia’s most influential business leadership platform, which brings together global leaders in conversation and collaboration across four powerful formats — ABLF Talks Live, the ABLF Talks, the ABLF Awards, and the ABLF Times – a bi-annual business publication. The awards are organised in conjunction with UAE’s ministry of economy.
The previous winners of the award include; n Kumar Mangalam Birla, the chairman of Aditya Birla Group, an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Worli, Maharashtra, India.
It operates in 36 countries, with more than 140,000 employees.
Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK