President Museveni has appointed Dr Michael Atingi-Ego as the new Bank of Uganda governor.
He has been serving as the deputy governor of BoU .
The position of governor fell vacant in 2022 when the then governor, Dr.Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile died in hospital in Kenya.
On Monday, the president also appointed Prof. Agustus Nuwagaba as the new Deputy Governor of the Bank of Uganda.
Dr Atingi-Ego previously served the executive director of Macroeconomics and Financial Management, Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa, based in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Before that, he served at BoU, as the executive director in charge of research.
In 2008, he served at the International Monetary Fund.
He is a seasoned economic policy official who has served in several capacities at various institutions.
He obtained his first degree from Makerere University and later proceeded for post graduate studies in the United Kingdom where he got a master’s degree from the Cardiff Business School, University of Wales and a PhD from Liverpool University.
He started his career at the Bank of Uganda rising through the ranks to become the Executive Director, Research.
In 2008 he took up an assignment with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as Deputy Director of the African Department (AFR).
He was in 2020 appointed the new BoU deputy governor until today when he was made the governor.