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Sheila Braka Musiime
World Bank
Deputy General Counsel
Biography
Sheila Braka Musiime, a Ugandan national, is the Deputy General Counsel for Operations in the Legal Vice Presidency Unit of the World Bank (LEG). She oversees the work of the Regional Practice Groups in LEG who supports the Bank’s financing operations, as well as the Operations Policy and Environment and International Law Practice Groups. Her team is responsible for ensuring excellence in the provision of legal advice and support to all operational departments and units of the Bank, to Senior Management and to the Board of Directors.
Sheila obtained an LLB with distinction from Makerere University Law School in Uganda and graduated with an LLM from Harvard Law School.
Before joining the World Bank, Sheila worked as a corporate lawyer in Uganda, focusing on commercial transactions and project finance.
Sheila joined the Bank in 2001 as Counsel in the Operations unit of LEG. She has since held various positions of increasing responsibility in LEG, working on legal and policy matters including on fraud and corruption, access to information, financial management and new financial instruments, and on lending operations in East Asia and Pacific, South Asia, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa and Africa. Prior to taking on the role of Deputy General Counsel Operations, Sheila was the Chief Counsel for Africa overseeing the delivery of legal services in the largest IDA programme in the World Bank. Prior to that she was the Chief Counsel for the East Asia and Pacific Practice Group at the World Bank, leading the Bank’s legal work across countries in all income categories.
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