Winifred Kiryabwire

Winifred Mary Tarinyeba Kiryabwire (born c. 1976), (née: Winifred Mary Tarinyeba), is a Ugandan lawyer, academic and businesswoman who is the chairperson of DFCU Bank, a large commercial bank in Uganda. She was appointed to that position effective 1 April 2022.

Early life and education She is Ugandan by birth. She attended local primary and secondary schools. Her first degree, a Bachelor of Laws, was obtained from Makerere University, the oldest and largest public university in Uganda. She went on to obtain the Diploma in Legal Practice, from the Law Development Centre, in Kampala, the capital and largest city in that country. Her second degree, a Master of Laws, was awarded by the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. She has two more degrees; one is the Master of Science of Law and the other is the Doctor of Science of Law, both awarded by Stanford Law School, in the United States. In September 2025, she was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Centre for Business Law and Practice (CBLP) at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.

Personal life Winifred Kiryabwire is married to Justice Geoffrey Kiryabwire of the Court of Appeal of Uganda. Together they are the parents of one daughter, Mary Kirabo Kiryabwire.