Robin Kibuuka is a

Uganda Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...

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. His last name is sometimes spelled Kibuka. He currently serves as the Chairman of Standard Chartered Uganda, the second-largest bank in the country, by assets, valued at about US$965 million (UGX:2.465 trillion), at 31 December 2012. He also serves as he Chairman of

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(UBOS), the government-owned statistics evaluation and monitoring agency.

Education

Kibuuka holds the degree of

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( BA) in

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from

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, in

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, United States. His

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in economics was obtained from

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, in

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, United States. He is a graduate from St. Paul's School in Concord, NH.

Work History

Kibuuka spent over 34 years at the

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(IMF), working at the Executive Board of the Institution and in several departments. He also served, at one time, as the Resident Representative for the IMF in

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. He has taught

and at

Makerere University Makerere University (; Mak) is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922, and the oldest currently active university in East Africa. It became an independent national university in ...

. He has also worked as a

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at the Yale Economic Growth Centre. He currently serves as the

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of both Standard Chartered Uganda and

. He is on the faculty at

Strathmore Business School Strathmore University Business School (SBS) is the business school of Strathmore University. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, it offers Doctoral, Masters and Undergraduate programmes, as well as executive education programmes. It was started in 2005 thr ...

Personal details

Kibuuka is married. He has written extensively on a wide range of economic subjects and his work has been widely published in journals and

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External links

Bank of Uganda HomepageWebpage of Standard Chartered UgandaRobin Kibuuka, Economist And Rotarian
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kibuuka, Robin Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Ugandan economists Harvard University alumni Yale University alumni

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