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Mr. Julius Kakeeto, MBA (Manchester, UK), ACCA, CPA: Director Finance, Equity Bank Uganda Limited
Mr. Julius Kakeeto has been appointed the new Finance Director at Equity Bank Uganda. He brings with him over 12 years of professional working experience in areas of financial strategy, business management, banking and accounting attained both in Uganda and the United Kingdom. Mr. Kakeeto replaces Mr. Emmanuel Mwanja.
Prior to this appointment, Julius had risen to the level of Director with Citigroup Global Markets Banking Division in the London based Emerging markets team where his role included but was not limited to strategy and administration of the Banking team. Julius' previous experience includes Strategy and Planning in Citi's regional office focusing on Emerging Markets Corporate and Investment Banking.
Before joining Citigroup UK, Mr. Kakeeto was the Chief Financial Officer for Citibank Uganda, where he played part in the start-up of its operations in Uganda and the subsequent restructuring to realign the business processes with corporate goals. He has undertaken assignments with Citi's Africa Division office in Johannesburg where he initiated centralization of country head office reporting for the Sub Sahara Africa businesses. He was the first employee exported out of Citi Bank Uganda. Before joining Citi Bank, he trained with Ernst & Young.
Julius is an alumni of Manchester Business School were he obtained an MBA in Finance. He is also a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and an Associate member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU). He studied in Strathmore (Kenya) and St. Mary's College Kisubi in Uganda.
He has undergone numerous professional development courses in areas of Credit Risk, Corporate Finance, Corporate valuation and financial analysis; Investments, Trade Services and Letters of Credit, Risk Management and Strategic Thinking.

Prof. Tom Otiti in his multi-million dollar laboratory at Makerere University

PROF. OTITI, UGANDA’S ONLY NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - The New Vision: Tuesday, 7th October, 2008
Prof. Tom Otiti. The 51-year-old don joined the university as a teaching assistant in 1985, with little to his name. But with a profound belief that university education is research-oriented, he got engrossed in research.
Since 1985, Otiti has never held any administrative post, neither is he eager to vie for one. All he wishes to spend his time on is research and teaching. This has not only enabled him rise to the rank of professor, but he has also been able to lay a hand on one of the most prestigious awards in the world — the Nobel Peace Prize 2007.
Otiti scooped the privilege ahead of all the research fellows of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 was shared between IPCC and former US Vice-president Al Gore. The IPCC, a scientific body of the United Nations tasked with evaluating the risk of climate change caused by human activity, was last year conferred with the award, but officials resolved to present it to one of its most significant researchers — Prof. Otiti.
“I was overwhelmed,” a jovial Otiti says. “It proved that the 23 years I have served in academia have been fruitful.”
The letter from the IPCC which accompanied Otiti’s award on August 22 read: “The Nobel Peace prize was bestowed on the IPCC in 2007. The credit for the prestigious award goes to you for contributing admirably to the work of the IPCC.”
Like it was to Al Gore, Otiti was recognised for contributing towards environment protection-oriented research. He was also honoured for his “efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”
The IPCC panel, which Otiti joined 15 years ago, publishes special reports on topics relevant to the implementation of the UN’s Convention on Climate Change, an international treaty that acknowledges the possibility of harmful climate change. The agency was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organisation and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). It bases its assessment mainly on peer reviewed and published scientific literature of academics.
Otiti says: “In case of any proposals, reports or work on energy, they (IPCC) have to seek my consent before they are approved,” he says. He is one of the few Ugandans on the IPCC. He has masterminded a number of studies for the IPCC. In 2000, Prof. Otiti, together with a team of other academics from the US, China and Russia, conducted a research project for the IPCC on how to effectively circulate the best environmentally sound technologies in the world. In their final book, titled Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer, Otiti and his colleagues revealed that the residential, commercial and institutional buildings sector highly contributed to global warming. It accounted for about one-third of the global energy used in 1990 and roughly one-third of the associated carbondioxide emissions.