The African Development Bank has appointed Dr. Alex Mubiru as Director General in the Cabinet Office of the Bank Group’s President, with effect from 16 August 2022.
Dr. Mubiru, a Ugandan national, brings close to 25 years of experience to the position, with a proven track record in the various positions he has held at the African Development Bank, and elsewhere.
Dr. Mubiru has been Acting Director General in the Cabinet Office of the President since December 2021 and Director of Strategy and Delivery, in the same office. In this role, the AfDB explains, he provided technical and operational support to the President to ensure strategic direction and timely execution of the Bank’s work programme and to strengthen compliance and accountability. He focused on strategy implementation, results in portfolio management and lending activities (indicative reserve and portfolio), financial performance, implementation of institution-wide initiatives and strategic partnerships. It also provided cross-cutting support to the implementation of the Bank’s High 5, operational policies and strategies, as well as key institutional priorities.
Various positions held at the AfDB
Dr. Mubiru joined the Bank as Principal Research Economist in 2009 and has since served in various other roles. Between 2010 and 2012, he was Principal Country Economist in the Tanzania Country Office. In 2012, he was appointed Lead Strategy Advisor in the Strategy and Operations Policy Department and was part of the core group that coordinated the development of the Bank’s 2013-2022 Ten-Year Strategy. During the same period, he also served as Task Manager for the preparation of the Bank’s 2013-2017 Private Sector Strategy. In 2014, he was appointed Manager in the Resource Mobilization Department, where he was part of the core team that led, organized and coordinated the 14th replenishment of the African Development Fund. In 2018, he was appointed as Country Manager in the Tanzania Country Office, where he managed a portfolio of over $2.3 billion. In November 2020, Alex Mubiru was appointed Director of Strategy and Implementation in the Office of the President of the AfDB.
University Professor
Prior to joining the African Development Bank, Mubiru worked as Assistant Professor of Social Science at the Singapore Management University (2008-2009), Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of the National University of Singapore (2001-2008), Project Economist at the World Bank in Thailand (1999-2001) and Research Associate at the Thailand Development Research Institute (1994-1995).
Dr. Mubiru holds a PhD and a master’s degree in Public Affairs, both from Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) in Philosophy, Political Science and Economics from Macalester College, USA.
