Yusuf Kiranda is University Secretary at Makerere University. Before that, he was Programme Manager at the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy and worked with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung as Programme Manager for Uganda and South Sudan. He is also member of the Board of Directors of the Centre for Development Alternatives. Yusuf holds a MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a first degree in Arts with Education from Makerere University, where he was Guild President.