Jovia
Namuwaya
Jovia Namuwaya is currently a Senior Manager, Financial Crime Compliance at Stanbic Bank Uganda, a market leader in Uganda’s banking sector. At Stanbic Bank, she is responsible for ensuring the embedment and enforcement of an adequate and effective AML/CFT program and works extensively in the areas of Anti Financial Crime.
Jovia has worked in both domestic and international business environments with over nine (9) years’ experience in the banking industry where she has built best-in-class compliance and anti-financial crime programmes, has been involved in forming various financial crime compliance teams across the industry, enabled innovative business whilst balancing anti financial crime risk and regulatory demands and successfully led bank wide AML related projects as well as engagements with regulators.
In 2020, Jovia obtained the Certified Anti Money Laundering (CAMS) certification and in 2019, she attained a Master’s in Business Administration degree from Edinburgh Business School, Herriot Watt University. In 2015, she obtained a Certified Risk and Compliance Management Professional (CRCMP) certification from the International Association of Risk and Compliance Professionals (IARCP). Jovia is also a Founding Member of the ACAMS East Africa Chapter.