The Nile Basin Initiative Secretariat recently welcomed four new staff who joined the small-knit multicultural family based in Entebbe, Uganda. Dr Jean N. Namugize, a Rwandan national, is the Regional Water Quality Expert under the NCCR Project at the Secretariat. He has over 18 years of technical and research experience in the field of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), catchment management plan, rainwater harvesting systems, hydrologic and water quality modelling, water quality assessment and monitoring, water and wastewater treatment processes and plants, Environmental and Social Impact Assessment studies (ESIA), GIS and in geothermal energy. He occupied various positions in Rwanda such as, a permanent lecturer of water resources and environmental technology at RP-IPRC Kigali, Short term consultant of the World Bank Group in Kigali/Rwanda and consultant on various IWRM related assignments in Rwanda, Burundi and DRC. Dr Namugize completed PhD studies in hydrology at University of KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa, with specialization in land use/land cover change evaluation and water quality modelling, earned both Master of Science and Bachelor of Science from the University of Rwanda where he was a regular guest lecturer and earned a certificate of fellowship in environmental studies from the United Nations University Geothermal Training Programme in Iceland.