Alex Rumanyika
Title: Head of Strategy
Organization: NSSF
Alex is an experienced business professional with demonstrated competence in the fields of Private Sector Development, Program Management, Corporate Finance, Microfinance, Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He has served in both the public and private sectors, honing his skills in strategy and finance at Deloitte East Africa, where he provided advisory services towards the Government of Uganda’s privatisation program. He went on to serve as a Team Leader in the Privatisation Unit under the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development, providing project leadership on several divestiture targets.
Alex would later join the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) as a Strategy Manager, playing a critical role in the design of the 10-year strategy (2015 – 2025) of the Fund, and helping establish an Innovation and Project Management Office for the Fund in 2018. The innovation portfolio has since birthed The Hi-innovator, a USD 10M to support 500 small-and-medium-size enterprises with catalytic funding to grow and help create 132,000 jobs.
Sessions With Alex
Wed 23 Oct: World Café: A Look at Uganda’s National Intellectual Property Policy Five Years Later
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