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Evelyn Namara
Evelyn Namara is a Ugandan technologist, technology entrepreneur, and corporate executive. She is the founder of Vouch Digital, a company established in 2015. Namara serves as a non-executive director on the boards of KCB Bank Uganda, MTN Mobile Money Uganda Limited, and Village Enterprise. She gained recognition as the first Ugandan to receive the Anita Borg Change Agent Award in October 2012. She is the founder of Innovate Uganda. Background and education Namara was born into a family of four children, being the only daughter among three brothers. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Makerere University. Namara also earned a Diploma in Sustainable Business and Responsible Leadership, focusing on Sustainability Studies, from The Swedish Institute Management Programme (SIMP). Namara possesses a diploma in Information Technology from the Uganda Institute of Information and Communications Technology, where she also obtained her Cisco Certified Networ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makerere University
Makerere University (; Mak) is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922, and the oldest currently active university in East Africa. It became an independent national university in 1970. Today, Makerere University is composed of nine colleges and one school, offering programmes for about 36,000 undergraduates and 4,000 postgraduates. These colleges include College of Natural Sciences (CONAS), College of Health Sciences (CHS), College of Engineering Art & Design (CEDAT), College of Agriculture and Environmental Studies (CAES), College Of Business and Management Sciences (CoBAMS), College of Humanities & Social Sciences (CHUSS), College of Computing and Information Sciences (COCIS), College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources & Bio-security (COVAB), College of Education and External Studies (CEES) and Makerere University Business School (MUBS). In addition, Makerere has another campus in Eastern Uganda Jinja City. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Juuko
Anne Juuko (born c. 1981) is a Ugandan investment banker and corporate executive, who was appointed by Standard Bank Group as the regional head of global markets in the group's Eastern African region, covering South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. Her appointment took effect on 1 April 2024. Her position is located in Nairobi, Kenya. Before that, from 1 March 2020 until 31 March 2024, she was the managing director and CEO of Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited, the largest commercial bank in the country, by assets, valued at US$1.6 billion as of June 2019. She took up this appointment on 1 March 2020. Background and education Juuko was born in the Central Region of Uganda in the 1980s. 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 Commerce degree from there. Her second degree, a Master of Strategic P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ugandan Chief Executives
Demographic features of the population of Uganda include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and others. Population According to the total population was in , compared to only 5,158,000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2015 was 48.1 percent, 49.4 percent was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 2.5 percent was 65 years or older.Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision Population by Sex and Age Group (Census 27.VIII.2014): Population Estimates by Sex and Age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makerere University Alumni
Makerere ( ) is a neighborhood in the city of Kampala, Uganda's capital city. The name also applies to the hill on which this neighborhood is perched; one of the original seven hills that constituted Kampala at the time of its founding, in the early 1900s. Location Makerere is located in Kawempe Division. It is bordered by Bwaise to the north, Mulago to the east, Wandegeya and Nakasero to the southeast, Old Kampala to the south, Naakulabye to the southwest. Kasubi and Kawaala lie to the west of Makerere. This location lies approximately , by road, north of Kampala's central business district. The coordinates of Makerere are:0° 20' 6.00"N, 32° 34' 12.00"E (Latitude:0.3350; Longitude:32.5700). Overview Makerere Hill is occupied primarily by Makerere University. In the 1970s and 1980s, the university had nine ''Halls of Residence'', six for men and three for women. During the 1990s and early 2000s, as the university intake and student population grew from about 5,000 to over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Ugandan Businesspeople
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Living People
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Patricia Ojangole
Patricia Adong Ojangole is a Ugandan accountant and bank executive. She is the chief executive officer of Uganda Development Bank Limited (UDBL), Uganda's only national development finance institution. Education She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree awarded by Makerere University, in Kampala, Uganda's capital city. Her Master of Business Administration was received from the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute in Arusha, Tanzania. She is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants of the United Kingdom. She is also a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda and the Institute of Internal Auditors. On 27 March 2025, she successfully defended her Doctor of Philosophy titled "Structural Transformation, Private Sector Credit, and Growth: Implications for Employment and Economic Growth in Uganda" from Stellenbosch Business School. Career Ojangole worked for 13 years in various African countries including Kenya, Tanzania, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Arapta
Sarah Arapta is a businesswoman and corporate executive from Uganda. She is the managing director and CEO of Citibank Uganda. She is also the Chairperson of Uganda Bankers Association since May 13, 2022 Background and education She was born in circa 1970s. She studied at local primary and secondary schools before she entered Makerere University, the oldest and largest public university in the country. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. She also holds a Master of Business Administration degree, awarded by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Career Arapta was employed at Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited for a period of nearly five years. She started there as the Head Corporate Banking before becoming the Head of Investment Banking. She transferred to Barclays Bank of Uganda in January 2014 as the Director of Corporate and Investment Banking, serving in that capacity for one year and six months. In January 2016, she was appointed manag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance For Affordable Internet
The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) is an initiative to make the Internet more affordable to people around the world. The World Wide Web Foundation serves as the Secretariat, and major members of coalition include Google, the Omidyar Network, the Department for International Development, USAID, Facebook, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, UN Women and many others from the public, private and civil society sectors. History Purpose A4AI was created with the goal of obtaining global broadband internet access priced at less than 5% of average per capita income globally; the target of the UN Broadband Commission. It cites the lack of investment in infrastructure, competition in the market, and inefficient taxation, amongst other policy and regulatory obstacles, as being major constraints to reducing prices. It claims the internet as being an essential source of information and services for all and advocates an open, competitive broadband and telecommunications market, regulated by an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
