Standard Chartered (the Group) has announced the appointment of Dr. Sandie Okoro as Group General Counsel. She will be reporting to Group CEO, Bill Winters and be based in the UK. Dr. Okoro is currently Senior Vice President and World Bank Group General Counsel, and Vice President for Compliance at the World Bank, and will join the Group in early-April 2022. Speaking about the appointment, Bill Winters said: “We’re delighted to have a General Counsel of Sandie’s calibre joining Standard Chartered. Her extensive experience, industry achievements and accomplishments, and focus on championing social justice make her ideally suited for the…
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By Emma Mugisha, Executive Director, Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited Globally, 44% of companies have three or more women in their C-suite, up from 29% of companies in 2015. Why? More role models in public and private sector means creating belief in young women to aspire for leadership (Examples: Uganda’s women dominated cabinet, means the government is leading as a good example to the Private sector to create more space for women in boardrooms. Girl Child Education has registered success, this has created a pool of many young women from which to pick the next generation of women in leadership. Globalisation…
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Whether at the workplace or at the business venture, women are continuously pushing the barriers to achieve their goals in life. Regardless, there are still so many glass ceilings to break and more women to uplift. Here below is some advice, derived from either talking directly to some of our women leaders and or sifting through some of the stories that we have run before. Do not be deceived – winning hardly ever comes easily, early or the first time you try. I got into Oxford University to read Medicine on my third attempt. I was sponsored on my 76th…
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Pheona Wall is the President Uganda Law Society, having served as Secretary then Vice President and the Chairperson of the Legal Aid and Pro Bono Project of the Uganda Law Society. Pheona is extensively experienced in legal risk management, regulatory compliance, projects, infrastructure and construction law, board affairs and stakeholder relations management. A resource in both private and public enterprises with thorough knowledge and hands-on experience in public relations, company secretarial practice, corporate governance, labour law, contract, and commercial transactions, Pheona combines a solid corporate legal background with a well-developed understanding of both commercial and operational drivers of business.She is…
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By Alvin Mbugua The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for effective leadership the world over. Cutting across both the public and private sectors, tough and seemingly impossible decisions with wide-reaching consequences had to be made in a timely fashion. The crisis changed peoples’ lives in often catastrophic ways, from public health concerns to widespread unemployment, and the world needed its leaders to step up. It was, thus, extremely refreshing to bear witness to the ways that women in leadership did exactly that from the onset of the pandemic. Globally, female leaders have been highly commended for acting quickly and decisively…
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You’ve had an impressive career path, reaching an executive level that is not as common for women as is for men. What enabled you to reach such heights? A lot of hard work, consistency and being able to determine the direction I wanted to take with my career quite early. I can’t say I have fully exhausted my potential yet, but I am on a journey, and as it is with any journey, you’re bound to hit bumps, navigate corners, climb hills, and go through valleys. All this has moulded me along my career path. Being competent at my work…
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Stanbic Bank, Uganda’s largest bank, by assets, lending, deposits and profit, has picked Emma Mugisha as its Executive Director, a credible source at the bank confirms. However, her ascension to the role is dependent on the Bank of Uganda’s approval. The Executive Director role is a de facto No.2 position in the bank. According to sources within the bank, she will still retain her Head, Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB), since December 2018. CIB is a lucrative part of the Stanbic Uganda business that generates about 41% of revenue for the bank. The business unit includes services to governments, parastatals,…
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Sixteen years since she joined MTN Uganda, Ms. Juliet K Nsubuga has grown through the ranks to become one of the four women that make up the top line leadership of Uganda’s leading telecom company and the country’s biggest taxpayer. As General Manager Wholesale and Carrier Services, Ms. Nsubuga manages telecom to telecom partnerships that enable MTN customers to have a great service experience when out of the country through roaming and locally when they call to other networks; as well as managing infrastructure services to other telecom providers. Her obligation is to ensure that the infrastructure is right, the…
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By Anne Juuko Africa’s progress in empowering women risks being undone if authorities’ responses to the Covid-19 crisis do not take gender issues into account. Most notably, access to funding will be critical for the survival of many small businesses; yet we know that women entrepreneurs face significantly greater obstacles than men when it comes to accessing financial services. If policymakers are not cognisant of this in their responses, including in their fiscal stimulus packages, Africa’s strides forward in financial inclusion could be reversed in the months and years ahead. We must ensure that our responses are aligned to the…
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