Profile
Aaron Joel Kaleeba is a corporate, capital markets, and financial-services regulation practitioner whose work spans strategy, governance, and capital-markets advisory. He currently serves as Strategy Enablement Officer at SBG Securities Uganda, a subsidiary of Stanbic Uganda Holdings Limited, where he is responsible for strategy formulation and execution and acts as the principal advisor to the Chief Executive on strategy and on the firm's advisory business line. At industry level, Aaron chairs the Advocacy & Stakeholders Committee of the Fund Managers' Association of Uganda. He previously served as Legal Advisor at Stanbic Uganda Holdings Limited from August 2021 to August 2025, with oversight of special projects and regulatory matters across the group's non-banking portfolio. Aaron is also the Founder of Khulani Capital, a not-for-profit entity extending corporate advisory support to start-ups, and earlier worked as a Legal Associate at the Network for Public Interest Lawyers (NETPIL) at Makerere University. He holds a Bachelor of Laws from Makerere University and a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre, and was a Konrad Adenauer-Stiftung Fellow on Innovation, Law & Policy from July 2024 to February 2025. Aaron is a published author whose works include Company Law in Uganda: A Compendium of Cases Decided Between 2012 and 2024; the Emissions Reduction Trading in Africa, Uganda Market Report; and A Handbook on the Legal and Policy Framework on Climate Finance in Uganda (Volumes I–IV). His honours include the Courageous Leadership Award, two Excellence in Execution Awards, and the Operational Excellence 2024 Award.