Samallie Kiyingi Explained

Samallie Kiyingi
Birth Place:	Kampala, Uganda
Education:	University of Technology Sydney
Nationality:	Ugandan
Known For:	Financial business expertise
Global General Counsel at Standard Chartered Bank

Samallie Kiyingi (born in 1979) is an Australian-Ugandan finance lawyer, who works as the Global General Counsel at Standard Chartered Bank, for Corporate, Commercial and Institutional banking. Contemporaneously, she serves as the bank's General Counsel for Europe and the Americas. She is based in Singapore. Her tenure at SCB began in October 2023.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Before that, from April 2017 until October 2023, she served as the Director of Legal Affairs at the African Export–Import Bank (Afrexim Bank), based in Cairo, Egypt.^{[4] [5]}

Early life and education

She was born to Ugandan parents, the late Robinah Kasirye Kiyingi, a lawyer and the late Dr. Aggrey Kiyingi, a cardiologist. She holds a Bachelor's Degree of Law and Arts in International Studies and a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, both awarded by the University of Technology Sydney, in Sydney, Australia. She is also admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales, Australia and in England and Wales.^[6]

Career

Kiyingi began her career as a banking lawyer at Ashurst LLP, which previously was Blake Dawson Waldron, in Sydney, Australia. She then worked as a Senior Associate at Clifford Chance, in London.^[7]

She also worked as a Director and the Head of the Securitization Regulatory Policy and Advisory Group at Deutsche Bank, based in London. At the time she was hired by Afreximbank, she was an independent consultant advising corporations and regulators on capital markets.^{[6] [7]}

At the African Export Import Bank, she served as the Director of Legal Services and as the corporate General Counsel.^{[5] [6] [7]}

Other considerations

Kiyingi is a founding member of the African Art Acquisition Committee, of the Tate Modern Art Gallery, inLondon, United Kingdom.^[4]

In 2018, Kiyingi was recognized as one of the 100 most influential people of African descent under 40 years of age, byThe Most Influential 100 Company.^[8]

See also

• African Export–Import Bank
• Sylvia Tamale
• Peninnah Tukamwesiga
• Patience Tumusiime Rubagumya

External links

• Afreximbank Will Increase Trade Financing In Uganda - Kiyingi
• Afreximbank’s Legal Director Named Among 2018 Most Influential People of African Descent As of 6 May 2018.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Samallie Kiyingi Appointed Global General Counsel of Standard Chartered Bank . African Shapers Online . 27 October 2023 . Patrick Ndungidi . 9 December 2023.
2. Web site: Law.com . Standard Chartered Names Next GC for Global Investment Banking . 27 October 2023 . Habiba Cullen-Jafar . 9 December 2023.
3. Web site: Ugandan Harvard Educated Lawyer Samallie Kiyingi Appointed General Counsel At Standard Chartered Bank . 29 October 2023 . CEO Magazine Uganda (CEOMU) . 9 December 2023 . CEOMU . Kampala, Uganda.
4. Web site: Afreximbank will increase trade financing in Uganda - Kiyingi . . 8 October 2019 . Martin Lurther Oketch . 12 March 2020 . Kampala, Uganda.
5. Web site: Afreximbank Appoints Samallie Kiyingi Director of Legal Services . African Business Communities . 21 April 2017 . 13 October 2019 . Andrea Ayemoba.
6. Web site: Samallie Kiyingi: General Counsel, African Export Import Bank . . 2018 . Hogan Lovells . 13 October 2019 . London, United Kingdom.
7. Web site: 7 May 2018 . Meet Samallie Kiyingi . MIPAD.Org . 13 October 2019 . Segun MIPAD.
8. Web site: Afreximbank's Legal Director Named Among 2018 Most Influential People of African Descent . African Export–Import Bank (Afreximbank) . 6 May 2018 . Afreximbank . 12 March 2020 . Cairo, Egypt.