Dr.Donald Rukare is an access to justice and human rights specialist with over 30 years’ experience working in legal, justice, rule of law and human rights issues in Uganda and the region. Donald’s experience cuts across the public, private, international community and academia worlds. He has worked as a lawyer, a governance advisor with the Inspectorate of Government (IG), bilateral aid donors including Embassy of Ireland and European Union, civil society and also managed large multilateral initiatives focused on human rights and access to justice and undertaken consulting and research assignments on justice, governance and human rights issues.  

Donald is an avid sports person, a former national swimmer and currently holds a number of high level positions including President of the Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC), immediate past President  of the Uganda Swimming Federation,  Interim President of the Commonwealth Games Federation ( CGF), World Aquatics ( Aqua formerly FINA) Bureau member representing Africa since 2017, Vice President of  Africa Aquatics (AA), and an arbitrator of the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).  Dr. Rukare is a MEMOS Professor and teaches Governance on the IOC MEMOS Master’s Program. Dr. Rukare has been appointed as an International Olympic Committee (IOC) consultant/advisor and in this regard undertaken missions/assignments to Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Lesotho and Sudan.