Francis Katana

Francis Katana (born, June 18, 1944), also known as Francis E.S Katana is a Ugandan diplomat and foreign policy expert who served as Uganda's ambassador to Washington, USA and as deputy ambassador of Uganda in Copenhagen, Denmark. In addition to being an educator. He is also a member on the advisory sectoral committee on infrastructure. However, Francis is best known for his diplomatic mission circles as Uganda's former ambassador to Washington and Denmark. While serving as a diplomat, he promoted Ugandan culture and heritage by selling Uganda's waragi. After finishing his studies at Makerere University, he was retained as a research assistant to a professor named, Ali Mazrui. Around October 1969, he joined Uganda Management Institute as an assistant lecturer in international relations and diplomatic studies. After working at UMI for a while, he was awarded a scholarship to the University of Southern California in the US, where he pursued a master's degree in public administration. During his studies in the US, he interned at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research in New York for three months and later graduated in 1971. In 1980 while in Kenya, he taught international relations at the United States International University. While in Canada around 1983, he served as a tutor of African international relations at Carleton University.

In 1986, Francis returned to Uganda and rejoined Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1987, he was posted as a minister counsellor to Washington, USA where he worked under Elizabeth Bagaaya until December 1993; however with several promotions from head of chancery to heading the mission as the ambassador after Elizabeth Bagaaya left. Francis was later posted back to Uganda and began working in January 1994 as the State House comptroller for four years. He later rejoined Foreign Affairs and was posted to Copenhagen, Denmark as deputy ambassador. During his mission, Uganda was accredited to five countries; Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Finland and Sweden.

He contributed to the review and writing of the Uganda Foreign Policy Framework for 50 years, which was supported by United Nations Development Programme.