Draft:Joyce Namirimo Tamale

Joyce Namirimo Tamale is a Ugandan impact and social investment specialist,, sustainability expert and gender activist against GBV. She has worked since 2003 both in the private and social sectors in Ugandat.

Education
Tamale has a Master of Business Administration at Eastern and Southern African Management Institute in 2007, Bachelors Of Commerce at Makerere University in 1999, Doctorate in Business Adminstration in 2022 from Unicaribbean Business School Nigeria and is a Fellow chartered accountant of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) in the UK, and a member of the Institute for Certified Public Accountants Uganda (ICPAU).

Career experience
Tamale is the founder and current chief executive officer (CEO) of Capital Solutions Ltd, a social enterprise focused on social enterprises in Africa. She is also the founder of the Social Investment Fund, an impact investing fund providing inclusive financing to social enterprises in Uganda.

Tamale was previously the managing director Jan 2014 - Dec 2018 and director of finance and investments with the Uganda Health Marketing Group (UHMG )Jan 2009 - Dec 2013 Prior to her tenure at UHMG, she held positions at the Eastern African Sub-Regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI), Save the Children, and Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC).

Board memberships and leadership
Tamale is the Board chairperson of Uganda Reinsurance, Board member and chairperson audit committee of KCB Uganda, chairperson of the Uganda Social Entrepreneurship Forum (SEF), and Board Treasurer of Humentum USA. Additionally, she is the Chairperson Emeritus of the Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE),, Chairperson Emeritus the Institute for Social Transformation (IST)

Awards and recognition
Tamale holds an honorary doctorate of Business Administration from the Swiss School of Business and Administration in Geneva, Switzerland.