Amanda Ngabirano

Later, she studied at the University of Greenwich, in the United Kingdom and at Saxion University of Applied Sciences, at the campus in Deventer, approximately 110 kilometres (68 mi), by road, east of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. She graduated with a Master of Urban, Community and Regional Planning. As of October 2021, Amanda is pursuing a Doctorate degree in urban and regional planning through Saxion University of Applied Sciences.

In December 2021, she was appointed as the substantive Chairperson of the National Planning Authority of Uganda (NPPB). She had occupied the position in acting capacity from 4 July 2020.

While an undergraduate at Makerere, she anchored the news in Kiswahili on Uganda Television (UTV), twice a week, at USh20,000 (approx. US$12 at that time), per session. She began lecturing at Makerere in 2006, on a part-time basis. She was appointed as a full-time lecturer in 2010.

In her final year at Kakoba, she registered for the university entrance examinations again. The sat those A-Level examinations at St. Leo's College, Kyegobe, a Catholic, all-boys, boarding school in Fort Portal City. She passed and was admitted to Makerere University on government scholarship, to study urban planning, her only selection on the application. In 2002, she entered Makerere University, graduating three years later with a Bachelor of Urban Planning degree.

She is a married mother of two children, one daughter born circa 2000 and one son born circa 2006.

She was born in Kasese Town, in the Western Region of Uganda in the 1970s. She attended Mubuku Primary School and Hima Primary School, before joining Kigezi High School, a mixed, boarding high school in Kabale City, approximately 140 miles (225 km), from home.