Prior to that, she served as Uganda's Ambassador to United Arab Emirates, and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
[3] When the current National Resistance Movement captured power in the 1980s, the Madhvani family returned to Uganda and repossessed their assets.
[7] In January 2017 she was posted to Abu Dhabi as Uganda's ambassador but was later recalled for causing a diplomatic incident between the UAE and Ugandan governments.
[8] She was replaced in Paris by Richard Nduhura, who previously was Uganda's permanent representative to the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
In 2020 she was recalled back to Kampala after leaked audio emerged of Nimisha Madhvani conspiring with her embassy colleagues to steal and distribute funds allocated to aid displaced Ugandans affected by the Covid-19 global pandemic.