The phenomenal story of Prof. Dr. Maggie Kigozi, the Gayaza High School alumna who became one of Uganda’s most loved, trusted and influential business leaders of our generation. If been there and done almost it all, was a person, that person would be Prof. Dr. Maggie Blick Kigozi. From being a star sports lady in her youth, to being a medical doctor in exile and at home and then being widowed at a tender 45 years, to picking up the pieces to becoming a thriving businesswoman, opinion leader and Executive Director of the government’s Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), she has seen it all. In 2010, she was recognised by Makerere University with an Honorary Doctorate of Laws. Some of the leadership roles held by the confessed feminist over time include Chief Scout of the Uganda Scouts Association; Member of the Global Banking Alliance for Women (GBA) Advisory Board; Director of the Board of Uganda Export Promotion Board; Member of, the Board of Directors, Crown Beverages Limited; Founder of the Uganda Investment Authority Women Entrepreneurs Network; Board Director Trade Mark Africa; Board Director NCBA Bank Uganda and Chancellor of Nkumba University. Others also include a member of the Shell Foundation Board of Trustees UK, Chairperson of Akina Mama Wa Afrika, the SDG5 Ambassador UN Women Uganda the Chairperson of the Makerere University Endowment Fund. She currently is the Chairman of Zuri Model Farms, a family enterprise that she leads. In this riveting interview with CEO East Africa’s Muhereza Kyamutetera, she tells her incredible life story.

Muhereza KyamuteteraJanuary 11, 2024May 3, 2024

Prof. Dr. Maggie Kigozi is one of Uganda's most impactful women of our times.

Let’s start from where it all started. Tell us about your childhood, growing up and early working days. My father’s dad Mr. Penn Blick was a British settler in Gomba, Central Uganda in the present day Gomba District. He had a coffee farm there. My mother’s dad, Captain Arthur Johnson had settled in Masaka District, where he married a Muganda lady. Therefore both my father, Mr. George William Blick and mother, Molly Johnson Blick were half Ugandan and half British. I was born in Fort Portal where my father was a district engineer for the Ministry of Works. My mother…

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