Miriam Mwonge

Miriam has a Master’s of Science in Information Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Information Sciences. She is also a Certified Information Professional (CIP) with and a member of The Association of Intelligent Information Management (AIIM).

Miriam currently works with East African Breweries Plc, a Diageo subsidiary, as the Manager, Information Management and Security. Her work revolves around information management and governance, information security and data privacy operations.

She has 13+ years of experience in the Information Management field, 5 of which entails immersion into data privacy and protection operations. She closely works with internal legal, digital and technology experts to ensure compliance with the local data protection laws (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania,Rwanda) and largely GDPR due to global affiliations.

She sees Data privacy and protection as both a growing opportunity and risk which can be greatly harnessed if comprehensive policies and right security mechanisms are in place to create an enabling environment.