Stella recently graduated from the World Trade Institute (WTI) in Bern, Switzerland, where she pursued a Master of Advanced Studies in International Law and Economics, deepening her knowledge in the legal, economic, and political aspects of trade policy making. Her Master’s thesis ‘Setting the negotiating agenda for the AfCFTA Protocol on Electronic commerce: A legal perspective’, received the ‘Thomas Cottier’ award for best thesis for the year 2022.
Before her studies at the WTI, Stella obtained an LL.M in International and European Law from the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) in Brussels, Belgium. As a result, she became well-grounded with respect to the EU institutional framework and public policy affairs relating to the EU Single Market and EU external trade relations. Stella wrote her LLM thesis on ‘Revisiting the role of domestic courts in contemporary international investment agreements, case study of the CETA’. Stella also obtained an LL.M in Regional Integration Law from the University Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
Stella is a qualified lawyer in Uganda. Before joining FratiniVergano worked as a consultant on intra-regional and intra-continental trade facilitation projects in Africa in the areas of trade in goods and services, and digital trade.
Stella is fluent in English, Swahili, Luganda (native language) and has a basic understanding of French, and Dutch.