Mr. Thomas Quirynen, Founder and CEO, Bamboo Uganda Limited, Kampala, Uganda
Mr. Thomas Quirynen, Founder and CEO, Bamboo Uganda Limited, Kampala, Uganda

Mr. Thomas Quirynen, Founder and CEO, Bamboo Uganda Limited, Kampala, Uganda

A step toward realizing the potential of bamboo resources: The Bamboo Uganda Limited

Thomas Quirynen is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Bamboo Wamu Uganda Limited, a social business and membership organization that is developing a bamboo value chain with a maximal social, environmental, and economic impact. In the last two years, Bamboo Uganda and its partners have developed plantation and propagation services, a processing facility, and a bamboo construction company. Bamboo Uganda tries to be at the forefront of bamboo innovations: by investing in research on green glues and heat treatment for structural bamboo beams, transforming its waste into, biochar,  a long-term carbon sink, and developing bamboo agroforestry models. Before starting Bamboo Uganda, Thomas was focused on generating impact through non-governmental and international organizations mostly in underdeveloped regions. Some of his experiences were the startup of a newspaper in South Sudan, Policy and Advocacy work with Oxfam, and the management of a program for the United Nations in D.R. Congo