Shattering Ceilings, Building Legacies: Judy Rugasira Kyanda’s Trailblazing Leadership in Real Estate While doing her master in the UK, Judy Rugasira Kyanda was headhunted to lead the Knight Frank subsidiary in Uganda. Whereas she toiled with refusing the offer, she finally gave in and for 25 years now, she has fashioned herself as a top CEO and one of the very few women in a largely male-dominated industry.

Over the last 30 years, Knight Frank has dominated the real estate sector in Kampala and Uganda, by extension. This elite property firm offers valuation and consultancy services, residential and commercial agency, and property management. Over the years, Knight Frank has curved a niche market on which it has built a large commercial and residential agency portfolio that promises and offers satisfaction for both sole-occupant and multi-tenanted clients. However, behind this success the constant remains Mrs Kyanda, who, as managing director, has more than two decades propelled Knight Frank above the rest in a relatively fragile real estate sector that…