Patrick Ayota

Patrick Michael Ayota is a Ugandan accountant and corporate executive, who is the managing director of National Social Security Fund of Uganda, effective 18 August 2023. Between December 2022 and August 2023, he was CEO/managing director at NSSF Uganda, in acting capacity. His contract as MD/CEO runs until August 2028.

From 29 October 2017 until August 2023, he was the deputy managing director of NSSF Uganda. He is also the chairman of the New Vision Group, a media conglomerate, partly owned by the Government of Uganda.

Background and education He was born in Tororo District, in the Eastern Region of Uganda. He attended local Ugandan schools for his pre-university education. He studied at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, in the United States, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree. and a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda.

Career Following his graduate studies, he took up residence in the Atlanta, Georgia area in the United States. He was employed at its Atlanta offices, by the Reznick Group, which today is CohnReznick, a large international accounting firm. In 2007, Ayota returned to Uganda and took up employment as the head of finance at Barclays Bank of Uganda (today Absa Bank Uganda Limited). However, with the intervention of President Yoweri Museveni, a different top team was hired and Ayota remained head of finance at the institution. In October 2017, further changes were made to the NSSF board, and Ayota was named as substantive deputy managing director.

Effective 2016, he sits on the board of directors of the New Vision Group, as a non-executive director. He also sits on the board of Housing Finance Bank, Uganda's mortgage lender, where NSSF Uganda has 50 percent shareholding, also as a non-executive director.