Simon Kagugube

Simon Kagugube (born 1 January 1955), is a Ugandan lawyer, corporate executive and taxation expert, who serves as the Chairman of the board of directors at Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), Uganda's revenue collection agency.

He concurrently serves as the Chairman of Monitor Publications in Uganda, and as a member of the board of directors at Nation Media Group, based in Kenya. Simultaneously, he is an executive director at Centenary Bank, a commercial bank in Uganda, and he sits on the board of directors of the bank.

He was born in Uganda circa 1955 and attended local elementary and secondary schools. He was admitted to Makerere University, Uganda's oldest and largest public university, where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree. He went on to obtain a Diploma in Legal practice, from the Law Development Centre. He was then admitted to the Uganda Bar, as a practicing attorney.

His degree of Master of Laws in Corporation Law, Taxation and International Trade Systems, was awarded by Yale University, in the United States. He also holds a Doctor of Science of Law, also awarded by Yale University. His doctoral specialization was in Immigration, Refugees and Asylum Law.

His other academic qualifications include a Certificate in Public Finance from University of Bath and a certificate in the Commonwealth Tax Inspectors’ course.

Dr Kagugube worked at the Uganda Revenue Authority, as Commissioner for Value Added Tax and while there, served temporarily as Deputy Commissioner General of the agency. As of February 2019, he is the chairman of the board at the tax agency.

In the early 2000s, he worked atPricewaterhouseCoopers Uganda as the Director of Tax and Legal Services, while simultaneously serving as the chairman of the board at Centenary Bank.

He was appointed to the Board of Nation Media Group, as an independent non-executive director in September 2011. He concurrently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Monitor Publications Limited in Uganda, a Nation Media Group subsidiary.

As of February 2019, Kagugube is an Executive Director at Centenary Bank, a commercial bank in Uganda and is a member of the bank's board of directors.

Dr Simon Kagugube is the president of the East African School of Taxation, a private institution based in Kampala, Uganda's capital city.