NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Joel Muhumuza is the commercial lead for Grameen Foundation’s financial services initiatives in Uganda. For the past three years, he has worked on developing viable business models for digital financial products, designing go-to-market strategies for these products, and relationship management with financial service providers and telecommunications companies as part of the development of the digital financial services platform. He previously worked as a business consultant at Summit Business consulting and as a graduate economist in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning of Uganda. Joel received a Bachelor’s of Commerce degree from Makerere University and an MBA from Southern University A&M College, where he undertook graduate research work with companies such as Walgreens, Caterpillar and Johnson& Johnson.