Nicholas Okwir

Nicholas John Okwir is a Ugandan accountant, banker and business executive, who served as the founding managing director and chief executive officer of Housing Finance Bank, Uganda's largest mortgagee lender, between November 2007 until December 2013.

Prior to that, from January 1983 until November 2007, he served as the chief accountant of what was then Housing Finance Company, before it was granted a banking licence by the Bank of Uganda in January 2008.

Career In 1983, following the conclusion of his professional education in Kenya, Okwir returned to Uganda and took up employment at what was then Housing Finance Company, a government-owned mortgage lender, as the chief accountant, serving in that capacity for the next 24 years.