Grace B. Muliisa (born c. 1975), is a
Ugandan banker and
corporate executive, who in August 2021, was appointed as the
managing director and
chief executive officer of
Ecobank Uganda Limited, a commercial bank in the country. Prior to that, she was the Head Personal and Business Banking at
Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited, the largest commercial bank in Uganda by assets.
Background and education
She attended local primary and secondary schools, before being admitted to
Makerere University, Uganda's largest and oldest
public university. She graduated with a
Bachelor of Arts in
Social Sciences degree from there, in 1998. Her second degree, a combined
Chartered Banker MBA was awarded in 2018, by
Bangor Business School, in
Bangor, Wales, in the United Kingdom.
Career
For a period of eight years, from 2011 until 2019, she was the Country Head for retail clients at
Standard Chartered Bank Uganda, based at the bank's headquarters in
Kampala, the country's capital city. For the two years from 2017 until 2019, she was posted to
Standard Chartered Singapore
Standard Chartered Singapore (officially Standard Chartered (Singapore) Limited) is the Singapore based subsidiary of British banking and financial services company, Standard Chartered. Opening its first branch in 1859, the bank is the one of the ...
, on assignment by
Standard Chartered Plc.
She then transferred to Stanbic Bank Uganda working as the Head of Business Banking at the bank for one year. In July 2020 she became the head of both personal and business banking at the institution.
In August 2021, she left Stanbic Bank and was hired as CEO of Ecobank Uganda.
Other considerations
At Ecobank Uganda she replaced Annette Kihuguru, an executive director at the bank, who had been acting as the managing director since July 2020. Kihuguru retired after a 30-year career in banking. Muliisa's appointment was subject to the approval of the
Bank of Uganda, the central bank and national banking regulator.
As of October 2022, Grace Muliisa is the substantive managing director and CEO of Ecobank Uganda.
See also
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Standard Bank Group
Standard Bank Group Limited is a major South African bank and financial services group. It is Africa's biggest lender by assets. The company's corporate headquarters, Standard Bank Centre, is situated in Simmonds Street, Johannesburg.
History ...
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Ecobank Transnational
Ecobank, whose official name is Ecobank Transnational Inc. (ETI), is a pan-African banking conglomerate, with banking operations in 36 African countries. It is the leading independent regional banking group in West Africa and Central Africa, se ...
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Suzan Mweheire Kitariko
References
External links
Website of Ecobank Uganda LimitedAs of 12 November 2020.
The women who keep our moneyAs of 25 October 2013.
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1970s births
Living people
Ugandan bankers
21st-century Ugandan businesswomen
21st-century Ugandan businesspeople
Makerere University alumni
Alumni of Bangor University
Ugandan women chief executives
Ugandan chief executives
Ugandan women in business