{{Short description|Ugandan businessman}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Martin Drito | image = Drito Martin Andi.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Martin Andi | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1957|6|15}} | birth_place = [[Arua]], Uganda | alma_mater = '''[[University of East London]]'''<br /> {{small|([[Bachelor of Science in Economics]])}}<br />'''[[University of Conakry]]'''<br />{{small|([[Master of Business Administration]])}} | occupation = Politician & businessman | years_active = 1987–present | spouse = 1 | title = Managing Director & CEO<br>'''Drito Global Corporation Limited''' }}
'''Martin Andi Drito''' is an economist, businessman, entrepreneur and politician in Uganda, the third-largest economy in the [[East African Community]]. He is the current managing director and chief executive officer of '''Drito Global Corporation Limited''', a mining and logging company that he founded and owns. In 2007, he was reported to be one of the wealthiest individuals in Uganda.{{Citation needed|date=April 2026}}
Martin was elected to parliament for ''Madi-Okollo County'', [[Arua District]], in 2011. He lost his parliamentary seat in the 2016 parliamentary elections.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newvision.co.ug/E/8/13/747838| title=New MP Wants Constituency Split|date=1 March 2011|first=Henry| last=Sekanjako|accessdate=8 December 2014|newspaper=[[New Vision]] (Kampala)}}</ref>
==Background and education== He was born in [[Arua]], on 15 June 1957. He attended ''Ezuku Primary School'', from 1963 until 1969. He transferred to ''Old Kampala Secondary School'' for his O-Level studies, from 1970 through 1973. He entered [[Namilyango College]] in 1974, completing his A-Level studies at the College, in 1975. In 1987, he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Science (BSc) in [[Economics|Applied Economics]]. In 2010, he obtained the degree of [[Master of Business Administration]] (MBA), from the [[University of Conakry]], in [[Guinea]], West Africa.<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=8 December 2014|url=http://www.parliament.go.ug/mpdata/mps.hei?p=f&n=t&details=t&j=612.000000&const=Madi-Okollo++County&dist_id=38.000000&distname=Arua|title=Profile of Drito Martin Andi, MP for Madi-Okollo County, Arua District|publisher=[[Parliament of Uganda]]}}</ref>
==Career== In 1992, Martin Andi Drito established two companies: (a) ''Drito Global Corporation'' and (b) ''Nile Trading Corporation''. The two businesses are involved in mining, mineral processing, timber development and logging. He is the managing director and CEO of both companies, which maintain offices at ''Workers House'', on Pilkington Road, in [[Kampala]]'s central business district. From 1998 until 2004, Martin Drito served as an Advisor to the [[President of Guinea]] on mineral policy and implementation.<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=8 December 2014|title=The Work History of Martin Andi Drito|url=http://www.parliament.go.ug/mpdata/mps.hei?p=f&n=t&details=t&j=612.000000&const=Madi-Okollo++County&dist_id=38.000000&distname=Arua|publisher=[[Parliament of Uganda]]}}</ref> In 2011, he successfully ran for the parliamentary constituency of ''Madi-Okollo County'', in [[Arua District]], and is the incumbent MP.<ref>{{cite web|title=Taking Stock of MPs Who Inherited Big Shoes|date=1 April 2012|accessdate=8 December 2014|last=Kakaire| url=http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18008:-taking-stock-of-mps-who-inherited-big-shoes|first=Sulaiman|newspaper=[[The Observer (Uganda)|The Observer]]}}</ref>
==Other considerations== Between 2011 and 2016, he was a member of the [[Parliament of Uganda]], and sat on the Committee on Natural Resources and on the Committee on Budget. He later lost his parliamentary seat in the 2016 parliamentary elections.
==See also== *[[Parliament of Uganda]] *[[List of African millionaires]]
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20150315101104/http://www.parliament.go.ug/new/ Website of Uganda's Parliament]
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