Dr. Winifred Mary Tarinyeba Kiryabwire

Winifred Mary Tarinyeba Kiryabwire, is a Ugandan lawyer, academic and businesswoman who is the chairperson of DFCU Bank, a large commercial bank in that East African country. She was appointed to that position effective 1 April 2022.

Dr. Tarinyeba Kiryabwire is a lawyer with over 20 years’ experience and expertise in corporate law, corporate governance and financial sector regulation.

She is a certified director with the Institute of Directors of UK and has wide experience in governance and oversight responsibilities in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors as well as global professional and standard-setting bodies.

Dr. Tarinyeba Kiryabwire was the inaugural chairperson of the Women Business Advisory Council of dfcu.
She subsequently joined dfcu Limited as a non-executive director and in 2019, was appointed to the dfcu bank Board as non-executive director.

She has previously served on the boards of FSDU, African Alliance, Makerere University Holdings, Gatsby Microfinance, Basic Needs Uganda as well as member of the Council of Mbarara University of Science and Technology and member of the Public Sector Internal Audit Committee.