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Board of Governors – Ka Tutandike Uganda

Board Chair Person

 

Stephen Jjingo (Chairperson)

Stephen is a labor and employment specialist with over 10 years of professional and academic experience. His strengths lie in labor legislation, policy advocacy, assessing laws, policies and regulations, disability, industrial relations, entrepreneurship, gender, management of business associations, and governance. He has management expertise in marketing, public relations, communications, corporate social responsibility, alliances, media relations, and special events for corporate organizations. Stephen has extensive experience in training, development and delivery, motivation and team building/leadership, general and technical project management, product marketing and management, negotiation and mediation. He holds a Bachelors’ Degree in Mass Communication and a Masters in Labor and Development.

 

Laura Kanushu (Responsibility for Programmes)

Laura is a prominent lawyer by training and an active advocate for Human Rights. She started an NGO that provides legal services for persons with disabilities; Legal Action for Persons with Disabilities (LAPD) as its Director. Laura has been a partner of Ka Tutandike since its inception in 2006. She brings to the KTU board institutional memory and legal expertise.

 

Dr Mumtaz Kassam

Dr.Kassam is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales and Advocate of the High Court of Uganda. She is currently the Deputy High Commissioner at the Uganda High Commission in Rome. Prior to this post, Dr.Kassam was the Deputy High Commissioner at the Uganda High Commission in London from 2008 to 2011. She has been a Senior Partner of Mumtaz Kassam & Co. Advocates, a Private Law Practice in Kampala since 2008 that focuses on Commercial, Human Rights, general Commercial Law, Land Law and Non Governmental Organisational (NGO) work. She was recently awarded a PhD and completed her PhD thesis at the University of Middlesex.