Anne Juuko, who has been serving as the Regional Head of East Africa for Global Markets at Standard Bank Group and previously as CEO of Stanbic Bank Uganda has stepped down from her role.
Her resignation came in December 2025, marking one and a half years in the regional position. Juuko had been appointed to oversee the Group’s global markets business across Eastern Africa, a portfolio spanning South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia.
By the time she resigned, Juuko had dedicated 13 years to Stanbic and the wider Standard Bank Group.
Her regional office was based in Nairobi, Kenya. Before taking up that assignment, she served from 1 March 2020 to 31 March 2024 as Managing Director and CEO of Stanbic Bank Uganda, the country’s largest commercial bank, valued at US$1.6 billion in assets as of June 2019. She assumed the top role on 1 March 2020.
Juuko succeeded Patrick Mweheire, becoming the first woman to lead Uganda’s largest lender. She is credited with steering the bank through some of its most difficult operating conditions, including the two-year global COVID-19 disruption, while keeping the institution profitable.
Under her leadership, Stanbic delivered strong results, posting a profit after tax of Shs 365 billion in 2022, up from Shs 242 billion in her first year. Results for 2023 are expected later this month.
The bank also made notable strides in expanding affordable financing for smallholder farmers. In 2021, it launched a Sacco financing and capacity-building programme that has since enrolled over 6,000 groups with a combined membership of 1.8 million people and deposits exceeding Shs 200 billion.
To date, Stanbic has disbursed more than Shs 80 billion in credit to Sacco groups at an annual interest rate of 10%, indirectly improving the livelihoods of nearly 10 million Ugandans, with support from partners including Abi Trust and Operation Wealth Creation. The bank also played a major role in advancing the government’s Parish Development Model.
In 2022, the bank partnered with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to launch Stanbic4Her, an initiative focused on capacity building and market access for women-led enterprises in Uganda.
Through this programme, Stanbic has enrolled 19,000 women entrepreneurs 14,000 of them new to the bank and enabled the disbursement of over Shs 60 billion to women-owned businesses at an interest rate of 15.5%. More than 54,000 women have also received financial literacy training under the initiative.
Juuko holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Makerere University and a Master’s degree in Strategic Planning from Heriot-Watt Business School in Edinburgh, Scotland.
