Rehema Nakirya

Rehema Nakirya is a corporate and commercial lawyer qualified in Uganda. She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Makerere University, Kampala-Uganda and a Master in Business Administration from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Rehema is a Mastercard Foundation AfOx Scholar studying for an MSc in Law and Finance at University College in Oxford.

Prior to Oxford, Rehema was a Partner at ENSafrica Advocates, Kampala, Africa's largest law firm. She advised clients in the private sector on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and capital markets transactions. She also has experience in corporate restructurings, due diligence and general corporate commercial advisory.

Rehema has a keen interest in growing Uganda's financial markets and believes that Uganda can leverage its financial markets to enhance economic growth. Rehema has supported efforts to reform laws in Uganda to create legal certainty on the enforceability of the standard market agreements for derivatives and repo transactions.

Rehema hopes to use her degree in law and finance to further her work in developing Uganda's financial markets. Rehema aspires to develop the repo market across all the sectors in Uganda to reduce the cost of credit for private sector growth and to support the development of the repo market beyond the borders of Uganda to improve intra-African trade.