Prof. Joy Kwesiga
Vice Chancellor Kabale UniversityProfessor Joy Constance Kwesiga (PhD, London) is an experienced academician, University Administrator and Social Development Analyst and a renowned gender and Women advocate. She has had an enviable privilege of combining academic work with women’s rights activist work. She has been a Professor of Gender Studies and the Vice-Chancellor of Kabale University since November 2005 to date. She oversaw the transformation of Kabale University from a private community University to a Public University. Even when Kabale University was a private University, she effectively steered it to attain a University Charter in 2014. Previously, Professor Kwesiga served as the founding Head of the Department of Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University. She then became the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Makerere University. Professor Kwesiga also was the founding Head of the Gender Mainstreaming Programme – at Makerere University where she later became the First Deputy Academic Registrar in the Gender Mainstreaming Division of the Academic Registrar’s Department at Makerere University.