Hashim Wasswa Mulangwa

Hashim Wasswa Mulangwa is the Chief Development Strategy Officer (CDSO) of Global Innovation Fund and is responsible for ensuring all GIF investments – including grants and risk capital investments -- are deeply grounded in the best evidence and practice of economic development. Hashim has a strong background in development and government, joining GIF after leading a team of experts for the Uganda Ministry of Finance that supported the establishment of a Covid19 Economic Response unit and development of the Government’s fiscal stimulus package. He was also the Team Leader for Uganda for a £70m programme supporting Foreign Direct Investment in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Rwanda and before that Director of Transformation and Service Delivery for a governance and accountability programme funded by DFID, USAID, and the EU to provide institutional reform in sectors such as roads, procurement, city management, domestic revenue mobilisation and the Judiciary. As Chief Strategy and Development Officer of the Rwanda Development Bank, he led the bank’s transformation agenda as a DFI that supports Rwanda’s development priorities. As Team Leader and Private Sector Development Adviser at DFID Rwanda, he managed a portfolio of nearly £100 million with investments across a diverse economic growth portfolio. Before DFID, Hashim worked for OTF, part of the Monitor Group, a global sector competitiveness consulting firm, in South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, and Angola. Earlier in his career, Hashim also spent many years as a Senior Policy Adviser for Uganda’s President’s Office and he earned his MPA in Economic Development from Harvard University.