“STRONG WOMAN: She may be the wife of Uganda’s strongest opposition leader, but there is more that defines Winnie Byanyima. This woman is the role model you want for all your children; she is very intelligent, a go-getter, aggressive and ambitious and she will stand up when things are not going right.” …Sqoop Uganda.

Biography

Winifred “Winnie” Byanyima is a Ugandan-born aeronautical engineer, politician, and diplomat. She is the executive director of Oxfam International, to which she was appointed in May 2013.

Background

She was born in Mbarara District in the Western Region of Uganda. As a little girl, Winnie Byanyima was the loudest among her siblings. She argued about everything, from school work, to the house work. Come playtime, she climbed trees and sometimes went along with herdsmen to graze and milk the cattle.
The rural people thought education was making her big-headed. But she, on the other hand, did not see anything wrong with speaking out her mind. By the time she joined university, she was the talk of the town. Some of the conservative villagers saw her as a snobbish girl who did not want to listen to her elders. “Everyone was saying her father had spoilt her, but that was simply Winnie,” says a close family friend.

Education

Born on January 1, 1957 to Boniface and Gertrude Byanyima, Winnie has five other siblings Edith, Anthony, Martha, Abraham and Olivia. She attended St. Hellen’s Primary School before joining Mt. St. Mary’s Namagunga for her O’level.
She later proceeded to King’s College Budo for A’level, before joining the University of Manchester for a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering. With a first class degree, she became the first female Ugandan to become an aeronautical engineer.

Professional career

Following the completion of her training as an aeronautical engineer, Byanyima worked as a flight engineer for Uganda Airlines. When Yoweri Museveni started the 1981–1986 Ugandan Bush War, Byanyima left her job and joined the armed rebellion. Museveni and Byanyima had been raised together at the Byanyima household as children, with the Byanyima family paying for all Museveni’s education and scholastic needs.

Museveni, Byanyima, and her husband Kizza Besigye were combatants in the National Resistance Army (NRA) during that war. Though both Byanyima and her husband have since fallen out with the Ugandan president because of his repressive undemocratic rule despite his earlier stated convictions.

After the NRA won that war, Byanyima served as Uganda’s ambassador to France from 1989 until 1994. She then returned home and became an active participant in Ugandan politics. She served as a member of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the 1995 Ugandan Constitution. She then served two consecutive terms as a member of parliament, representing Mbarara Municipality from 1994 until 2004. She was then appointed director of the Directorate of Women, Gender and Development at the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She served in that capacity until she was appointed as director of the Gender Team in the Bureau for Development Policy at UNDP in November 2006.

In January 2013, Byanyima was announced as the next executive director of Oxfam International, replacing Jeremy Hobbs. Byanyima began her five-year directorship at Oxfam on 1 May 2013.

In January 2015, Byanyima co-chaired the World Economic Forum in Davos. She used the forum to press for action to narrow the gap between rich and poor. The charity’s research claims that the share of the world’s wealth owned by the richest 1 percent of the world population had increased to nearly 50 percent in 2014, whereas 99 percent shares the other half. Oxfam’s figures are strongly contested by several economists.

In November 2016, Byanyima was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines, co-chaired by Ruth Dreifuss,

former President of Switzerland, and Festus Mogae, former President of Botswana.

Personal details

Byanyima is married to political opposition figure Kizza Besigye, the former chairman of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) political party in Uganda. They are the parents of one son named Anselm. Byanyima is a member of the FDC, although she has significantly reduced her participation in partisan Ugandan politics since she became a Ugandan diplomat in 2004.

Inset: Winnie Byanyima hangs out with American music star Will.I.Am, this was at 47th Annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Besigye with wife Winnie

source www.africanbelle.com

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