Head GAMSU ; Professor Women and Gender Studies; One of the first Lecturers of the Department of Women Studies. Researcher in the fields of Social and Gender Norms and unpaid care; Reproductive health of young women and adolescents; Sexual Harassment in HEIs.

Professor Sylvia Tamale is a leading African feminist and a multidisciplinary scholar based at Makerere University’s Law School in Uganda. She is the founder and coordinator of the Law, Gender and Sexuality Research Centre at the same university. Prof. Tamale was the first female Dean of Law in Uganda and has been a visiting professor at several universities including Oxford, Pretoria and Zimbabwe.

Aili Mari Tripp is the Wangari Maathai Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US. Tripp’s research has focused on women and politics and women’s movements in Africa, women and peacebuilding, transnational feminism, African politics, and on the informal economy in Africa. She has conducted extensive research for over 30 years throughout Africa. Her most recent book is Seeking Legitimacy: Why Arab Autocrats Adopt Women’s Rights (2019).

Professor 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.