Position: Secretary/CEO
Profile Group: Senior Management
CPA Derick Nkajja is the Chief Executive Officer and Secretary of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU) since October 2010. He serves as a Company Director on the Board of Mengo Hospital Investment Uganda Limited, a Non-Executive Director of CIC Africa (U) Limited, and a member of the Tax Agents Registration Committee of Uganda Revenue Authority. He also serves as a member of: the Finance Committee and Trade Committee of the board of the Private Sector Foundation of Uganda, and the Finance Committee of the Institute of Corporate Governance of Uganda (ICGU). He was Board Treasurer of the Uganda Cooperative Savings & Credit Union Ltd.
He also previously served as a member of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) Compliance Advisory Panel (CAP), representing the Africa region for six (6) years, having been nominated by ICPAU. He represented the Eastern Africa region on the Board of the Pan Africa Federation of Accountants (PAFA), as an ICPAU representative, and a founding PAFA board member, for four years. As a member of the PAFA Board, he served on the Planning, Human Capital and Finance Committee.
CPA Nkajja holds a Master of Business Administration of Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University UK, a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) of Makerere University and a Diploma in Business Studies.