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The 100 Leading and Most Admired CEOs in Uganda 2024.

Uganda’s 100 Leading and Most Admired CEOs 2024

Hardly two years after arriving in Uganda to take up her very first CEO role at Uganda’s largest telco, MTN Uganda, Sylvia Mulinge has emerged as Uganda’s most admired CEO, in the

December 19, 2024

100 Leading & Admired CEOs·C-Suite Leadership·Lists & Rankings·The Big Story

A photo collage of Radio One Proprietor and Minister of State for Youth and Children Affairs, Balaam Barugahara.

Minister Balaam to acquire Maria Kiwanuka’s Radio One Mbale frequency license

Media entrepreneur and State Minister for Children and Youth affairs, Balaam Barugahara, has applied for the transfer of a license from Radio One Limited to Baitu Group Limited, according to a public

November 28, 2024

The Big Story

Left-Right: Sanjay Rughani, the Managing Director & CEO Standard Chartered Bank Uganda; Hon. Maria Kiwanuka, the Bank’s Board Chairperson and Angelo Izama Opi-Aiya, a Board Director at the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA).

Uganda’s Global Competitiveness⏤ Standard Chartered Bank urges investors, banks on collaboration, sustainability and digitisation

To start and build thriving and domestically, regionally and globally competitive businesses, Ugandan Investors have been advised to focus on building for the long-term by getting the fundamentals right. This among others

August 22, 2023

Company News·The Big Story

The 111 women at the heart of Uganda’s banking industry

The Uganda Bankers’ Association’s Chairperson, Citibank’s Sarah Arapta is female too- the first woman to. Some financial institutions such as Finance Trust Bank- have taken it further by having an all-female Board

July 7, 2023

Executive Profiles·Lists & Rankings·The Big Story·Women In Leadership

Minister Bahati delivering his keynote address at Sheraton Hotel in Kampala

StanChart hosts companies to Sustainable Trade Finance Thought leadership event, unveils Straight2Bank Nextgen corporate platform

Standard Chartered Bank Uganda held a thought leadership event to discuss business immersion in Sustainable Trade Finance for over 100 corporate and SME business leaders at Sheraton Hotel. The Sustainable Trade Finance

July 14, 2022

Company News·News & Analysis

Former minister of Finance, Maria Kiwanuka speaking. She tasked the sector regulators to regulate in a way that improves, sustains and leads to the development of SMEs

Financial experts tip SMEs on business survival, development

Financial experts have on Wednesday tipped Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) on entrepreneurship financing and investment post Covid-19 era. This was during the Prudential Knowledge Series, the first in 2022, on discussing

May 26, 2022

News & Analysis

L-R: Maria Kiwanuka will head the board with Aritho Kinyua Japheth and John Muhaise Bikalemesa as some of the members

Former Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka named board chair of Airtel Mobile Commerce Uganda Limited

Airtel Mobile Commerce Uganda Limited (AMCUL), the leading mobile financial solutions provider in the country, has today appointed Hon. Maria Kiwanuka as Board Chair. The appointment that was announced by Airtel Money

May 4, 2022

Company News·News & Analysis

Maria Kiwanuka is now a member of Standard Chartered Bank Uganda board as an Independent Non- Executive Director

Standard Chartered Bank Uganda Appoints Former Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka as Independent Non-Executive Director

Standard Chartered Bank Uganda has announced the appointment of Maria Kiwanuka to its Board as an Independent Non- Executive Director. Kiwanuka is a senior economist with 14 years’ experience at the World

May 20, 2021

Company News·News & Analysis·The Big Story·Women In Leadership

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