Geoffrey Bwireh is the Co-founder and the Executive Director at the Initiative for Community Resilience, and a member of a diverse, internationally experienced practitioners that contribute their subject matter expertise throughout the CAS program at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Business School in Switzerland.

A native of Eastern Uganda, he recognized that the region had great potential to benefit from the prosperous boarder between Kenya and Uganda, having been born and raised in a typical household on the margins of this boarder community he is no stranger to the challenges and limited opportunities present within the wider community. Opportunities, and other basic amenities are limited to the country’s larger towns, thus creating a stark disparity in vocational opportunities and livelihood choices further driving the extensive opportunity gap between the urban metropolis and the countryside. Leveraging on his background in entrepreneurship at an early age in life, Geoffrey co-founded the Initiative for Community Resilience to provide vocational and entrepreneurial skills non credit bearing programs across the local community and its neighbourhood.

These programs are implemented through workshops, bootcamps and practical training engagements within the reach of the intended beneficiaries. This program is different from many other programs in that it appreciates the skills and resources that the community brings, and it encourages the participants to view these resources through an entrepreneurial lens, simply put we support our communities to maximize the value of their own resources in a more progressive and sustainable way.

Geoffrey brings to the organization 16 years of un-interrupted business ownership management and higher education experience across the East African region. Successfully taught as a guest lecturer at leading business schools in the USA: Darden Business School University of Virginia, and Rice Business, Rice University. Until recently has been the Erasmus+ program co-ordinator for the Faculty of Business and Management Sciences at Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Uganda a position he has excelled in as a pioneer coordinator. He is passionate about sharing his business ownership and leadership experience across the region that is characterized with high levels of infrastructural constraints, informality and market volatility.