Mr. Mwencha is a seasoned governance and economist with a stellar career spanning over 4 decades at local, regional and global levels. Mr. Mwencha brings to Horrizon a wealth of governance experience including his current role as the Board Chair of Equity Bank Kenya Limited, Trade Mark East Africa (Board Chair), Africa Capacity Building Foundation (Board Chair), Yaatra Ventures (Board Chair), African Union Commission (Board Vice-Chair, 2008-2017)
Ms Tukaheebwa is a firebrand development expert who brings to Horrizon a wealth of global development experience with leading organisations including the World Bank and the United Nations. She is an independent consultant working with YAATRA Africa as an Investment Operations Analyst focusing on the Oil and Gas sector in the Region. She is a board member at CEWIGO. Grace has been a consultant with the World Bank Group since 2012, to which, she worked with the Center for Conflict Resolution (CECORE) in Karamoja and Northern Uganda, on the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) Sunshine Project. She is a grounded social worker with over 10 years experience in Gender Mainstreaming, Monitoring and Evaluation, Natural Resources based Conflict, Alternative Dispute Resolution and occupational Health and Safety.
Mr. Karamaga is a veteran development finance, financial management, public finance management, leadership and governance expert who brings to Horrizon over 4 decades of technical and management excellence in government, private sector as well as multilateral development institutions such as the AfDB. Mr. Karamaga holds various board positions including; The Banque Commerciale du Rwanda (BCR) (Board member); SONARWA (National Insurance Corporation of Rwanda) (Chairman); PTA Reinsurance Company (ZEP-RE) (Board member); Prime Insurance (Rwanda) Limited (Board member); Equity Bank (Rwanda) Limited (Board member). He has a wealth of International Professional Experience in Development Banking Operations and Lending at the African Development Bank (AFDB); Professional Experience at the IMF Headquarters in Washington DC (2011-2013); Public Financial Management (PFM, 1999-2006); as well as tax administration (1984-1994) in Rwanda.
Dr. Uwizeye is a business management professional with over 28 years of working experience across industries at senior level positions. Dr. Uwizeye brings on board rich governance experience courtesy of his various board roles including; Non-Executive Director at Equity Bank Rwanda Plc.; Finserve Africa Ltd, (Board Chair); Ecobank Rwanda (Vice Chair); former BCDI Bank Rwanda (chair of the audit committee); Institute of Certified Public Accountants-Rwanda (immediate past President and Chairman of the Governing Council). His corporate career experience includes; Founder and Managing Director BPU Consulting Ltd; MTN Rwanda (Chief Finance Officer, and the General Manager in charge of Business Risk Management); Director of Finance and Administration and the Chief Accountant at AACC in Nairobi.
Mr. Mugumya brings to the Horrizon Board over 31 years of executive leadership, institutional strengthening, management and governance experience acquired through an accomplished career with IPPFAR and its member Associations. He is an experienced governance expert holding various board/trust positions including; Uganda Biodiversity Fund (Trustee); The Ankole Western University-Uganda and International Aids Alliance, Uganda (former board member); Reproductive Health Uganda and Uganda Red Cross, (Life Member).
Mrs. Winfred Osimbo Lichuma is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya with 28+ years of senior level leadership in law, human rights and gender equality. She holds an LLB from University of Nairobi, LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex in United Kingdom and a Master’s Degree in Gender and Development from the University of Nairobi.
She is the founder of WTT Lichuma & Co Advocates LLP, a law firm mainly focusing on family law, governance, women’s rights and promoting access to justice in Kenya for the vulnerable. Winfred was admitted to the bar as an advocate of the High court of in Kenya in 1992. She started her career as a Resident Magistrate in the Kenya Judiciary for a period of 10years. She was the first Legal Manager of the National AIDS Control Council where she extensively contributed to identifying legal/ethical and gender issues around HIV programming. Winfred served as the first Chairperson of the National Gender and Equality Commission (NGEC), a constitutional commission with the mandate to promote gender equality and freedom from discrimination in Kenya. She made remarkable contributions in promotion of gender equality, diversity and inclusion in the county.
At the global level, she was appointed by the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon in (2016-2018) as an expert from Africa on an 11-member Independent Accountability Panel (IAP) for Every Woman, Every Child and Every Adolescents to monitor accountability for the delivery of the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent’s (2016-2030). The task entailed preparing annual State Reports to provide evidence of progress being made towards realization of the strategy while aligning it to the Sustainable Development Goals.