George W. Rubagumya (“Mr. Rubagumya”) is an international business lawyer, with vast experience spanning more than 30 years working in both the public and private sectors in the United States of America (“USA”) and across the African Continent (“Africa”). The bulk of his time is spent advising public sector clients about the design and execution of legal and economic policy reforms to drive private sector-led sustainable economic development; and advising public and private sector clients on building public-private partnerships to develop and implement integrated economic development programs; develop financial service products through capital markets to mobilize sustainable capital investment in the infrastructure; energy; property and natural resource sectors.
Mr. Rubagumya currently serves as a Legal Consultant to Ethos Attorneys and Consultants (“ETHOS”), where he works closely with ETHOS Partners in advising clients on complex legal matters; he serves as the Executive Director of Liaison Financial Services (“LIAISON”), which has operating subsidiaries in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan, where he leads LIAISON in the promotion and development of the East African Capital Markets’ ability to structure and execute transactions involving Asset-Backed Securities (“ABS”); Municipal Development Bonds (“Muni Bonds”); and Real Estate Investment Trusts (“REITS”) as sustainable mechanisms for mobilizing financing development and transformation of Africa, starting in East Africa.
Previously, Mr. Rubagumya worked as the Africa Director for AECOM International, the economic development consulting arm of AECOM Group, America’s leading engineering design and infrastructure development firm, where he led the teams that provided institutional development support to the Southern Sudan Regional Government after signing of the Peace Agreement with the Sudan. His work led to Mr. Rubagumya serving as the Co-Founder and current Head of the Institute of Development Technology (“IDT”), a Public Private Partnership between the Government of South Sudan, through the University of Juba, and the Liaison Group, which was created in 2012 to serve as the Innovation Center for the Republic of South Sudan. The IDT was, until the outbreak of conflict in South Sudan in 2013, at the forefront of effort to modernize the legal and regulatory framework of the Republic of South Sudan to enable the country attract and facilitate investments into the young nation. Prior to that, he served as the first Executive Director of the Uganda Investment Authority (“UIA”), the pioneer investment promotion agency in the East Africa Region, where he actively participated in the effort to reform and modernize Uganda’s commercial laws as part of the effort to promote the country’s private sector-led economic transformation.
He was in private practice of law in Austin, Texas, with the law firm of Small Craig & Werkenthin; and he served as Assistant Attorney General of the State of Texas, as Litigation Counsel to the Texas Department of Highways; the Texas Railway Commission, Division of Oil and Gas; and the Texas Department of Health, Division of Environment Protection.
He holds a Juris Doctor from Creighton University School of Law, Omaha, Nebraska;Mr. Rubagumya is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia; the Rwanda Bar Association and the East African Law Association; and inactive member of the State Bar of Texas.
