A conversation with Stanbic’s Anne Juuko— her rise to the top, leading Uganda’s largest bank through a pandemic and building a future-ready inclusive bank CEO East Africa Magazine’s Muhereza Kyamutetera exclusively talks to Anne Juuko about her appointment as the first woman Chief Executive of Stanbic Bank, leading Uganda’s largest lender through a pandemic and building a future-ready inclusive organization.

The interview takes place at her office on the 11th floor of the imposing Crested Towers building where Stanbic Uganda corporate headquarters are located. Getting there earlier than the noon appointment on a Tuesday afternoon, I am asked to wait in the lobby overlooking the parliament of Uganda, the green serenity of Serena hotel and the Victorian architectural marvel of the UBC headquarters. Thirty minutes past noon, Anne as she is fondly called by colleagues emerges from an adjoining conference room with the bank’s People and Culture head, David Mutaka, and half a dozen young persons with physical disability who…